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OCCURRENCE OF MYCANGIA IN THE BARK BEETLE DRYOCOETES CONFUSUS (COLEOPTERA: SCOLYTIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

S. H. Farris
Affiliation:
Forest Research Laboratory, Department of Fisheries and Forestry, Victoria, British Columbia

Abstract

Paired mandibular mycangia are present in both sexes of the bark beetle Dryocoetes confusus Sw. These fungus repositories were not found in either sex of another bark beetle of the same genus, Dryocoetes affaber Mann.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1969

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