Phylogeny and classification of the Culicidae (Diptera)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 327-370

  Harbach, Ralph E ^a   Kitching, Ian J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELINAE; CULICIDAE; CULICINI; DIPTERA; MANSONIINI; SABETHINI; TOXORHYNCHITES; URANOTAENIINI;

EID: 0001604950     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.1998.00072.x     Document Type: Article

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