More than black and white: A new genus of nanophyine seed predators of dipterocarpaceae and a review of meregallia alonso-zarazaga (coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Nanophyidae)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-105

  Lyal, C H C ^a   Curran, L M ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Borneo; Brunei; Damnux; Dipterocarpaceae; Kalimantan; Meregallia; Nanophyidae; Seed Predator; Weevil

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; HOST; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; SEED PREDATION;

(SOUTHEAST); ASIA;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONOIDEA; DAMNUX BORNEENSIS; DAMNUX CONFITSA; DAMNUX CONVIVA; DAMNUX GRANDIS; DAMNUX SEMINIVORAX; DAMNUX TENEBRIOSA; DAMNUX TINDALEORUM; DAMNUX WAGNERI; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; MEREGALLIA; MEREGALLIA ARATRA; MEREGALLIA LIGATA; MEREGALLIA SULAWESIENSIS; MEREGALLIA ZARAZAGAI; NANOPHYES; NANOPHYES DIPTEROCARPI; NANOPHYIDAE;

EID: 0037428373     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713834392     Document Type: Article

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