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Carrel, J.E., Tanner, E.M. Sex-Specific Food Preferences in the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Gromphadorhina portentosa (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 15, 707–714 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020704108399
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