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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE LARVAL ELATERIDAE (COLEOPTERA) NO. I: LUDIUS AERIPENNIS DESTRUCTOR BROWN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Robert Glen
Affiliation:
Dominion Entomologica1 Laboratory, Saskatoon, Sask.

Extract

In the realization that all exact field experimentation and census work with insects is dependent upon accurate recognition of the species involved, a study of the comparative external morphology of the larvae was planned, from the first. as an integral part of the major project on wireworms, which was incepted in 1922, at the Dominion Entomological Laboratory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The soundness of this viewpoint has been amply demonstrated, in that the morphological work has repeatedly proved to be vital to the whole economic study of this pest, which is being increasingly recognized (King, 1928; Seamans, 1933) as one of the major problems of wheat-growing in western Canada.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1935

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