Phylogeny of European Dolichopus and Gymnopternus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) and the significance of morphological characters inferred from molecular data

European Journal of Entomology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 601-617

  Bernasconi, Marco Valerio ^a   Pollet, Marc ^b,c   Varini Ooijen, Manuela ^a   Ward, Paul Irvine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Cytochrome oxidase I; Diptera; Distribution; Dolichopodidae; Dolichopus; Ecology; Ethiromyia; Europe; Gymnopternus; Mitochondrian DNA; Morphology

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION KEY; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

DIPTERA; DOLICHOPODIDAE; DOLICHOPUS; GYMNOPTERNUS;

EID: 34848885404     PISSN: 12105759     EISSN: 18028829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2007.075     Document Type: Article

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