Discheramocephalini, a new pantropical tribe of featherwing beetles (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae): Description of new taxa and phylogenetic analysis

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-136

  Grebennikov, Vasily V ^a,b  

^a CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CLADISTICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IDENTIFICATION KEY; NEW TAXON; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLEOPTERA; FELIS; PTILIIDAE;

EID: 58149218520     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00444.x     Document Type: Article

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