Adventive onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in North America: Geographic ranges, diagnoses, and new distributional records

Entomological News

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 345-362

  Hoebeke, E Richard ^a   Beucke, Kyle ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; GAZELLA; INSECTA; ONTHOPHAGUS; ONTHOPHAGUS GAZELLA; ONTHOPHAGUS TAURUS; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 0030694674     PISSN: 0013872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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