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A STUDY of the wood-boring and tubicolous mayfly nymph, Povilla adusta Navás. (Ephemeroptera, Polymitarcidae), common in the lakes of East Africa, has shown that it is remarkable in two respects.
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HARTLAND-ROWE, R. Feeding Mechanism of an Ephemeropteran Nymph. Nature 172, 1109–1110 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1721109a0
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