Two new species of the genus Merodon Meigen 1803 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the island of Lesvos (Greece), in the eastern Mediterranean

Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-326

  Vujic, Ante ^a   Pérez Bañòn, Celeste ^b   Radenkovic, Snezana ^a   Stahls, Gunilla ^c   Rojo, Santos ^b   Petanidou, Theodora ^d   Simić, Smiljka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Lesvos island (Greece); Merodon; New species; Syrphidae

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; MERODON; SYRPHIDAE;

EID: 37149029733     PISSN: 00379271     EISSN: 21686351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2007.10697527     Document Type: Article

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