Australian water striders of the subfamilies Trepobatinae and Rhagadotarsinae (Hemiptera: Gerridae)

Invertebrate Taxonomy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 509-544

  Andersen, Nils Møller ^a   Weir, Tom A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031687907     PISSN: 08180164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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