Muscles-bearing of sting apparatus in social wasps and their relationship with the autotomy (Hymenoptera : Vespidae : Polistinae)

Journal of Advanced Zoology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Manzoli Palma, Maria De Fatima ^a   Da Cunha, Marina Staurengo ^a   Gobbi, Nivar ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

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