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Record 1 1980-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
OBS

In some, and perhaps many, species of horned beetles (...) horn size has a linear relation to body size rather than a geometric one. Daniel Otte and Katherine Stayman of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia have recently shown this to be true for a number of species of stag beetles (members of the family Lucanidae) (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
OBS

(...) chez de nombreuses espèces de scarabées, la taille des cornes est directement proportionnelle à la taille du corps: la relation est alors linéaire et non exponentielle. Daniel Otte et Katherine Stayman de l'Académie des Sciences naturelles de Philadelphie, l'ont récemment confirmé chez plusieurs espèces de scarabées cerfs-volants appartenant à la famille des Lucanidés.

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