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Morphology, Ontogeny, Reproduction, and Feeding of True Bugs

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True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics

Part of the book series: Entomology in Focus ((ENFO,volume 2))

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In this chapter we present an overview of the morphology, ontogeny, reproduction, and feeding of the 28 higher-level categories (infraorder/superfamily/family/subfamily) of true bugs occurring in the neotropical region, which are treated in greater detail in Sect. 2.2.

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Grazia, J., Simões, F.L., Panizzi, A.R. (2015). Morphology, Ontogeny, Reproduction, and Feeding of True Bugs. In: Panizzi, A., Grazia, J. (eds) True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics. Entomology in Focus, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9861-7_2

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