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PHASMID INJURY TO THE HUMAN EYE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

M. A. Stewart
M. A. Stewart
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis, California
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It has long been known that some of the Phasmidae discharge a fetid fluid from certain glands. King (1867) published a note on his observations of a phasmid in Jamaica, identified as Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll) but which Bates believed to be a true Phasma, in which he stated that the prothorax contains two glands, secreting a fetid fluid which is discharged through two elevated pores and serves as a defensive agent. This author further stated that these nocturnal, or crepuscular, and gregarious insects are almost always found in the adult stage in copulation.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 69 , Issue 4 , April 1937 , pp. 84 - 86
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1937

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