A new high-altitude Ilybiosoma Crotch, 1873 from Tibet, as an example of a Palaearctic - Afrotropical disjunction (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)

Aquatic Insects

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-138

  Brancucci, Michel ^a,b   Hendrich, Lars ^c  

^a NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Biogeographie   (Switzerland)

^c ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

China; Coleoptera; Cordiform pronotum; Dytiscidae; Ilybiosoma; Morphology; Systematics

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; DYTISCIDAE; ILYBIOSOMA;

EID: 33745389087     PISSN: 01650424     EISSN: 17444152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01650420600684634     Document Type: Article

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