New open aquarium system to breed larvae of water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Coleopterists Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-43

  Inoda, Toshio ^a   Kamimura, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUARIUM; BEETLE; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CONSERVATION;

COLEOPTERA; DYTISCIDAE; DYTISCUS; DYTISCUS SHARPI; HEXAPODA; HYGROBIIDAE; INSECTA;

EID: 2042487211     PISSN: 0010065X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1649/591     Document Type: Article

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