Publication Type: | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication: | 1977 |
Authors: | O. W. Richards, Davies R. G. |
Book Title: | Imm's General Textbook of Entomology |
Volume: | 210 th |
Pagination: | 646 - 657 |
Publisher: | Chapman and Hall |
City: | London |
Abstract: | Hemipteroid insects with long, filiform antennae of 12-50 segments, sometimes secondarily annulate. Head with Y-shaped 'epicranial' suture usually present; post-clypus inflated. Maxilla with 4-segmented palp and a rod-like lacinia which is partially sunk into head-capsule; labial palps much reduced, 1- or 2- segmented. Prothorax genertally small; wing-veination simple, with a few cross veins, but often with characteristic anastomes between Rs and M and between M and Cu 1a. Tarsi 2- or 3-segmented. External genitalia inconspicuous, cerci absent. |
URL: | http://www.phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/0136.pdf |
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