Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) Part II: The genus Megaselia

Fauna of Arabia

Volumn 24, Issue , 2009, Pages 249-357

  Disney, R Henry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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