Morphological features of adults and nymphal instars of Coloceros species (Phthiraptera: Insecta) recovered from Collared-dove Streptopelia decaocto
Journal Title: Journal of Applied and Natural Science - Year 2018, Vol 10, Issue 4
Abstract
The present report furnishes information on the morphological features of specimens of Coloceros species collected from Collared-dove Streptopelia decaocto in district Rampur. Three nymphal instars of Coloceros sp. can be differentiated by the number of setae pre-sent on the postero-lateral angles of pterothorax and abdominal segment six to ninth in addition to nature of sclerotization and abdominal segmentation.
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Padam Singh, Ghazi Khan, Surendra Kumar, Nidhi Gupta
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