Cleaning and preparing adult beetles (Coleoptera) for light and scanning electron microscopy
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J. du G. Harrison Department of Zoology and Entomology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg, 2050 South Africa* Department of Invertebrates, Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (formerly Transvaal Museum), Pretoria, 0001 South Africa
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