Are there butterflies with Gondwanan ancestry in the Australian region?

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 143-156

  De Jong, Rienk ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; GONDWANA; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

CRESSIDA; EURYADES; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0037245882     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS02021     Document Type: Review

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