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Original Articles

Ecology of the calling song of two Namibian armoured ground crickets, Acanthoplus longipes and Acanthoproctus diadematus (Orthoptera Tettigoniidae Hetrodinae)

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Pages 261-269 | Received 29 Oct 2004, Accepted 12 Mar 2005, Published online: 19 May 2010

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