Spiders from Riversidian coastal sage scrub with comparisons to Diegan scrub fauna (Arachnida: Araneae)

Pan-Pacific Entomologist

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 90-122

  Prentice, Thomas R ^a   Burger, Jutta C ^a   Icenogle, Wendell R ^b   Redak, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arachnida; Araneae; Coastal sage scrub; Endemic species; Species list; Spiders

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035531121     PISSN: 00310603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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