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WITHIN the New Zealand species of the families Corixidae and Notonectidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera), two distinct forms, depending on the development of the wings and the wing-musculature, have been recognized. In these species a proportion of the population is composed of flightless animals in which, apart from Diaprepocoris zealandiae, the indirect flight-musculature is reduced even though the two sets of wings are not significantly altered from the normal condition. In D. zealandiae the meta-wings are greatly reduced and the meso-wings differ in having a reduced membranous portion.
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YOUNG, E. Degeneration of Flight-musculature in the Corixidae and Notonectidae. Nature 189, 328–329 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189328c0
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