Three new species of Chironomidae (Diptera) from the Australian Wet Tropics

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-128

  Cranston, P S ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Australia; Chironomidae; Chironominae; Orthocladiinae; Tanypodinae; Tropics

Indexed keywords

NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALOPELOPIA; AUSTRALOPELOPIA PRIONOPTERA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; ECHINOCLADIUS; ECHINOCLADIUS MARTINI; PIRARA; PIRARA EDWARDI; POLYPEDILUM; POLYPEDILUM AUSTRALOTROPICUS; THIENEMANNIMYIA;

EID: 0034441678     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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