TABLE I I
ARTHROPOD TRANSPIRATION
0
Rate of transpiration
Species
Habitat
hygric
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hygric
hygric
mesic
mesic
mesic
mesic-xeric
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Mg/cm
2 /
h o u r / m m Hg
110
32
23
600*
23
51
48
12
8
0.
•5
1
15
22
17.
8.
6.
8.
12.
3
2
4
3
0
1
cm/second
X 10*
323
94
68
1760
94
149
141
35
23.5
0.9
14.7
2 . 9
44
65
50.4
24.6
18.5
24.0
36.3
Authority
Isopod crustaceans
Porcellio scaber
Venezillio arizonicus
Hemilepistus
reaumuri
Insects
Agriotes larvae
Agriotes pupae
Calliphora erythrocephala
Blatta orientalis
Glossina palpalis adults
Glossina morsitans adults
Glossina morsitans pupae
Tenebrio molitor larvae
Tenebrio molitor pupae
Thermobia domestica adults
Locusta adults
Eleodes armata adults
d
Cryptoglossa verrucosa adults
d
Centrioptera muricata adults'*
Eremiaphila monodi
Arenivaga investigata
Edney (1951)
Warburg (1965c)
Cloudsley-Thompson (1956)
Wigglesworth (1931)
Wigglesworth (1931)
Mead-Briggs (1956)
Mead-Briggs (1956)
Mead-Briggs (1956)
Bursell (1957a)
Bursell (1958)
Mead-Briggs (1956)
Holdgate and Seal (1956)
Beament (1964)
Loveridge (1968a)
Ahearn and Hadley (1969)
Ahearn and Hadley (1969)
Ahearn (1970b)
Delye (1969)
Edney and McFarlane
(1973)
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