Fine structural description of the compound eye of the madagascar 'hissing cockroach' Gromphadorhina portentosa (dictyoptera: blaberidae)

Insect Science

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-192

  Mishra, Monalisa ^a   Meyer Rochow, Victor Benno ^a,b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Apposition; Blattodea; Closed rhabdom; Ommatidium; Polarization; Vision

Indexed keywords

BLABERIDAE; BLATTARIA; DICTYOPTERA; GROMPHADORHINA LAEVIGATA; GROMPHADORHINA PORTENTOSA; HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTEROIDEA; PERIPLANETA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

EID: 65249097245     PISSN: 16729609     EISSN: 17447917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2008.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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