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INSTAR DIFFERENTIATION IN LARVAL CHIRONOMIDAE (DIPTERA)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Victor J. E. McCauley
Victor J. E. McCauley
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Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Abstract

Examination of the most commonly used criteria for separating instars in larval chironomids, based on a study of 29 species from three subfamilies in Marion Lake, British Columbia, revealed that only head capsule width or length is suitable. Most chironomids appear to have four larval instars.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 106 , Issue 2 , February 1974 , pp. 179 - 200
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1974

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