Time of diversification in the Cape fauna endemisms, inferred by phylogenetic studies of the genus Iselma (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Eleticinae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 739-752

  Pitzalis, Monica ^a   Bologna, Marco A ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BEETLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; VEGETATION TYPE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

COLEOPTERA; ISELMA; MELOIDAE;

EID: 77956740824     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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