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Quinoid secretions are found to have an unexpectedly wide distribution in tenebrionid insects which live on stored food. The seventeen species involved include the common grain, flour and fungus beetles.
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LADISCH, R., LADISCH, S. & HOWE, P. Quinoid Secretions in Grain and Flour Beetles. Nature 215, 939–940 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215939a0
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