Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian Coelometopini (Coleoptera:Tenebrionidae); A quantitative cladistic analysis with a review of biology

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-43

  Bouchard, Patrice ^a   Yeates, David K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Character evolution; Coelometopinae; Coelometopini; Flightlessness; Genitalia; North queensland; Phylogenetics; Wet tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001865714     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-6092-00003     Document Type: Article

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