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    Identifying cryptic beetle larvae

    Identifying cryptic beetle larvae

    For many years, the larvae of the New Zealand grass grub Costelytra zealandica and that of its congener C. brunneum have been considered cryptic. To progress the research in my PhD project using these two scarabs as pest and non-pest species model, I developped novel molecular methods, based on the use of frass and larval exuviae as non-invasive sources of DNA, to differentiate them (Lefort et al. 2012). Later on, and based on the use of these molecular tools, a detailed comp

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