An evolutionary radiation of beeflies in semi-arid Australia: Systematics of the Exoprosopini (Diptera:Bombyliidae)

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 735-891

  Lambkin, Christine L ^a,b   Yeates, David K ^a,b   Greathead, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FLY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

ANTHRACINAE; ANTHRACINI; ATRICHOCHIRA; BOMBYLIIDAE; DIPTERA; DROMAIUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE; EXOPROSOPA; EXOPROSOPINI; HESPERIS; INVERTEBRATA; LIGYRA; MONACHA; PSEUDOPENTHES; SISYPHUS; TRIGONA; VILLINI;

EID: 0842323785     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS03020     Document Type: Article

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