Three new species of the wood roach, Cryptocercus (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae), from the eastern United States

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Volumn 4, Issue , 1999, Pages 1-12

  Burnside, Craig A ^a   Smith, Paul T ^a   Kambhampati, Srini ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cockroaches; Mitochondrial DNA; Species description

Indexed keywords

BLATTARIA; CRYPTOCERCIDAE; CRYPTOCERCUS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 3242746728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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