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BIOSYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS EUXOA (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE): III. HEMOCYTOLOGICAL DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN TWO CLOSELY RELATED SPECIES, E. CAMPESTRIS AND E. DECLARATA1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. W. Arnold  and
C. F. Hinks
J. W. Arnold
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
C. F. Hinks
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
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Abstract

The shape of one single category of hemocytes served as a critically distinguishing character between larvae of two closely related species of Euxoa (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) that were otherwise practically identical in external features. The ratio of length/width of fusiform plasmatocytes in heat-fixed blood films was significantly smaller in larvae of E. campestris (Grote) than in E. declarata (Walker).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 107 , Issue 10 , October 1975 , pp. 1095 - 1100
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1975

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