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Allen F. Sanborn, Polly K. Phillips, Observations on the Effect of a Partial Solar Eclipse on Calling in Some Desert Cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae), The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Jun., 1992), pp. 285-287
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