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Revisiting Paternal Care in the Assassin Bug, Atopozelus pallens (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

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  1. Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716-2160

    Douglas W. Tallamy & Evelyn Walsh

  2. Entomology, Barton Laboratory, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, New York

    Daniel C. Peck

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Tallamy, D.W., Walsh, E. & Peck, D.C. Revisiting Paternal Care in the Assassin Bug, Atopozelus pallens (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 17, 431–436 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOIR.0000042532.50112.0c

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