Morphological and Electrophoretic Evidence for a New Species of Electrogena from Central Italy: Description of E. lunaris sp. n. (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae)

Aquatic Insects

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 129-140

  Belfiore, Carlo ^a   Scillitani, Giovanni ^a   Picariello, Orfeo ^a   Cataudo, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrophoresis; Ephemeroptera; Heptageniidae; Italy; New species; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ELECTROGENA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEPTAGENIIDAE;

EID: 0000927568     PISSN: 01650424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01650429709361647     Document Type: Article

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