Cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae) as indicators of habitat and veld condition in Valley Bushveld in the great fish river valley, South Africa

African Entomology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 280-284

  Villet, M H ^a   Capitao, I R ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CICADIDAE; HEMIPTERA;

EID: 0030463038     PISSN: 10213589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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