1. How Stomaphis aphids use their giant proboscides
- Author
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Roman Rakitov, Olga Karengina, and Sergei Karengin
- Subjects
0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Arboreal locomotion ,biology ,Aphididae ,Lachninae ,biology.organism_classification ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Sternorrhyncha ,Hemiptera ,Arthropod mouthparts ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Genus ,visual_art ,Botany ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,Bark ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
To penetrate tree bark, arboreal aphids of the genus Stomaphis Walk. (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Lachninae) have proboscides up to three times their body length. Our observations of S. quercus (...
- Published
- 2018