Eggshell morphology of selected Indian bird lice (phthiraptera: Amblycera and ischnocera)

Entomological News

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 327-336

  Gupta, Nidhi ^a   Khan, Vikram ^a   Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Saxena, Smriti ^a   Rashmi, Archna ^a   Saxena, Arun Kumar ^a  

^a Government Raza Postgraduate College   (India)

Author keywords

Amblycera; Bird lice; Eggshell; India; Ischnocera; Microtopography; Phthiraptera

Indexed keywords

AMBLYCERA; AVES; GONIOCOTES; ISCHNOCERA; MENACANTHUS; PHILOPTERIDAE; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 77649245999     PISSN: 0013872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3157/021.120.0312     Document Type: Article

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