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A Contribution to the Knowledge of Flight Muscle Changes in the Scolytidae (Coleoptera)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

M. D. Atkins
Affiliation:
Forest Biology Laboratory, Victoria, B.C.
S. H. Farris
Affiliation:
Forest Biology Laboratory, Victoria, B.C.

Extract

The degeneration of indirect flight muscles in ant and termite queens following rhe loss of their wings has been known for some time (Janet, 1907; Feytaud, 1912). More recently the atrophy of the indirect fight muscles has been reported in flies (Mercier, 1920, 1924, 1928), probably in Dermaptera (Mercier and Poisson, 1923), in aquatic Hemiptera (Fernere, 1914; Poisson, 1924) and in various beetles (Jackson, 1933; Chapman, 1956, 1958; Reid, 1958). Ewer (1954) reported tlmt certain thoracic muscles in some Acritlidae also undergo degeneration in the adult stage.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1962

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