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EXTERNAL MORPHOLOGY OF LARVAE OF CHORISTONEURA HOUSTONANA (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

E. A. Heinrichs
E. A. Heinrichs
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan
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Abstract

Postembryonic changes in external morphological structures of Choristoneura houstonana (Grote) from first to last instars are described. A setal map for first and structures for first and last instars are described and illustrated. Possible generic characters are suggested.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 103 , Issue 1 , January 1971 , pp. 12 - 17
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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