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Abnormalities exhibited by Mosquito Larvae collected in Tonga1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Marshall Laird
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The duplication of a clypeal spine and the bending of some of the hairs of an antennal tuft in a fourth-instar larva of Culex (Culex) annulirostris Skuse, and the gross malformation of the antennae and siphon of an apparently younger larva from the same pool, are described and discussed.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , April 1955 , pp. 185 - 188
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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