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Published in Cambridge University Press eBooks • Nov 12, 1998
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Authors:
R. F. Chapman
Abstract
Insects and other arthropods are built up on a segmental plan and their characteristic feature is a hard, jointed exoskeleton. The cuticle, which forms the exoskeleton, is continuous over the whole of the outside of the body and consists of a series of hard plates, the sclerites, joined to each othe...