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(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)Antennae with an asymmetrical 3- to 7-segmented club of more or less flattened segments.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
lamellate antennae
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