On the use of DNA sequences for determining the species limits of a polymorphic new species in the stink bug genus Halys (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) from Pakistan

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 703-710

  Memon, Nasreen ^a   Meier, Rudolf ^b   Manan, Abdul ^a   Su, Kathy Feng Yi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SINDH   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; POLYMORPHISM; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

GRAPHOSOMA LINEATUM; HEMIPTERA; HETEROPTERA; PENTATOMIDAE; PENTATOMINAE;

EID: 33749517223     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00350.x     Document Type: Article

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