Alternative tasks of the insect arolium with special reference to hymenoptera

Functional Surfaces in Biology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 67-103

  Gladun, Dmytro ^a   Gorb, Stanislav N ^b   Frantsevich, Leonid I ^a  

^a SCHMALHAUSEN INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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