Systematics of the new world waterscorpion genus Curicta stål (Heteroptera: Nepidae)

Journal of the New York Entomological Society

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 117-215

  Keffer, Steven L ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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