Revision of North American Agabus leach (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): The opacus-group

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 613-665

  Larson, D J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGABUS; AGABUS AUSTRODISCORS; AGABUS CONFERTUS; AGABUS DISCORS; AGABUS EURYOMUS; AGABUS HYPOMELAS; AGABUS JIMZIM; AGABUS LINEELLUS; AGABUS OPACUS; AGABUS VANCOUVERENSIS; AGABUS VANDYKEI; AGABUS VERISIMILIS; AGABUS WALSINGHAMI; AGABUS WASASTJERNAE; COLEOPTERA; DYTISCIDAE; HIRUDINIDA;

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0029660274     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent128613-4     Document Type: Article

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