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Similarities in the Histology of the Gut of Some Species of Tribolium Macleay (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) and Oryzaephilus Ganglbauer (Col., Cucujidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

R. N. Sinha
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, McGill University Montreal 2, Canada

Extract

The alimentary canal of stored grain beetles is relatively simple compared to those of the higher orders of insects. But there are certain specializations from the generalized alimentary canal of the insect described by Snodgrass (1935). Striking similarities of structure have been observed in course of morphological investigation of the alimentary canals of two distantly related groups of beetles living on stored cereals. The differences between the two groups are few.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1958

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