Identification of Australian canegrubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthini)

Invertebrate Taxonomy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 377-409

  Miller, L J ^a   Allsopp, P G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BSES LIMITED   (Australia)

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