Pseudodrephalys: A new genus comprising three showy, neotropical species (one new) removed from - And quite remote from - Drephalys (hesperiidae: pyrginae)

Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 364-380

  Burns, John M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genitalia (male and female); Metatibial tufts (whose hairs widen); Mimicry; Ovipositor lobes (with deep notches); Palpi

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010733773     PISSN: 00240966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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