New world revision of the termite Genus Procryptotermes (isoptera: kalotermitidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 530-539

  Scheffrahn, Rudolf H ^a   Krecek, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Neotropics; New species; Procryptotermes; West Indies; Yucatan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009969976     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0530:NWROTT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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