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Lepidoptera may accidentally affect man’s health by means of specialized scales and toxic substances, as they use these in both active and passive defence against predatory animal species which compete for their territory (Mooren, 1848; SCHROEDER, 1896).
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Delgado Quiroz, A. (1978). Venoms of Lepidoptera. In: Bettini, S. (eds) Arthropod Venoms. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology / Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45501-8_20
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