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BIOSYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS EUXOA (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE): VIII. THE HEMOCYTOLOGICAL POSITION OF E. ROCKBURNEI IN THE “DECLARATA GROUP”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. W. Arnold
J. W. Arnold
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa
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Abstract

The shape of plasmatocytes in heat-fixed blood of sixth instar larvae of E. rockburnei was compared with that of the same cells in the two other species of the "declarata group", E. campestris and E. declarata. The data show that the shape, represented as the length/width ratio of mature, fusiform plasmatocytes, can serve to distinguish between populations of all three species. It suggests too that E. rockburnei is more closely related to E. declarata than to E. campestris.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 108 , Issue 12 , December 1976 , pp. 1387 - 1390
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1976

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