Fissimentum, a new genus of drought-tolerant chironomini (diptera: chironomidae) from the Americas and Australia

Entomological News

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Cranston, Peter S ^a   Nolte, Ulrike ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

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