Mandibulate chironomids: Primitive or derived? (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 688-699

  Azar, Dany ^a   Veltz, Isabelle ^b   Nel, Andre ^c  

^a LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FLY; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEOCHLUS; AUSTROCHLUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; PODONOMINAE; TANYPODINAE;

EID: 53149116696     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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