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DIFFERENTIATION OF LARVAL PITYOKTEINES ELEGANS AND SCOLYTUS VENTRALIS (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Nit Kirtibutr  and
John A. Schenk
Nit Kirtibutr
Affiliation:
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow
John A. Schenk
Affiliation:
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow
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Abstract

Larvae of Pityokteines elegans Swaine and Scolytus ventralis LeConte are distinguished by differences in coronal suture, frontal suture, antennae, and labium. Anatomical features are illustrated by SEM micrographs.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 109 , Issue 3 , March 1977 , pp. 381 - 383
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1977

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