Revision of velvet ant genus Dilophotopsis Schuster (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) by using molecular and morphological data, with implications for desert biogeography

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 514-524

  Wilson, Joseph S ^a   Pitts, James P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ITS1; ITS2; Phylogeography; Sphaeropthalminae

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TAXONOMY; WASP;

NORTH AMERICA;

HYMENOPTERA; MUTILLIDAE; SPHAEROPTHALMINAE;

EID: 44849143600     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2008)101[514:ROVAGD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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