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CHARACTERISTIC MODES OF ADAPTATION IN THE CANADIAN INSECT FAUNA

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H.V. Danks
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The Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada , Volume 111 , Supplement S108 , 1979 , pp. 548 - 566
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