Nymph and egg of Melanemerella brasiliana (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerelloidea: Melanemerellidae), with comments on its systematic position and the higher classification of Ephemerelloidea

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 263-275

  Molineri, Carlos ^a   Domínguez, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Neotropics; South America; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG; MAYFLY; TAXONOMY;

ARTHROPODA; EPHEMERELLIDAE; EPHEMERELLOIDEA; EPHEMEROPTERA; LEPTOHYPHIDAE; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE; MELANEMERELLA BRASILIANA; MELANEMERELLIDAE; TRICORYTHIDAE;

EID: 0038385867     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1467997     Document Type: Article

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