Rediscovery of Libythea collenettei Poulton and Riley (Nymphalidae: Libytheinae) in the Marquesas, and a description of the male

Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 81-85

  Kawahara, Akito Y ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphology; Natural history; Snout butterfly; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

FRENCH POLYNESIA;

CELTIS; LEPIDOPTERA; LIBYTHEA; LIBYTHEANA BACHMANII; LIBYTHEINAE; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 0041629020     PISSN: 00240966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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