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Orientation in leaf-cutting ants (Formicidae: Attini)

✍ Scribed by Evaldo F. Vilela; Klaus Jaffé; Philip E. Howse

Book ID
117030379
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
847 KB
Volume
35
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-3472

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