Which leaf beetles have not yet been described? Determinants of the description of Western Palaearctic Aphthona species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1409-1421

  Baselga, Andrés ^a   Hortal, Joaquín ^a,b   Jiménez Valverde, Alberto ^a   Gómez, José F ^a   Lobo, Jorge M ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aphthona; Chrysomelidae; Geographic location; Geographic range size; Probability of discovery; Species description determinants; Trophic selection; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; GENERALIST; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HOST PLANT; MORPHOLOGY; PALEARCTIC REGION; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES INVENTORY; TAXONOMY;

APHTHONA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 34250817039     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-6738-9     Document Type: Article

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