Beetle evolution in the Asian highlands: Insight from a phylogeny of the scarabaeid subgenus Serica (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 450-476

  Ahrens, Dirk ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; DISPERSAL; OROGENY; PALEARCTIC REGION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEIDAE; SERICA;

EID: 34447285997     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00373.x     Document Type: Article

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