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PROTHORACIC MUSCULATURE OF THE ADULT MALE SPRUCE BUDWORM, CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

B. K. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B.
W. D. Seabrook
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B.

Abstract

The musculature of the prothorax and the prothoracic coxa of the adult male Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.) is described in detail and is compared with three other families of the Lepidoptera.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1970

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