Matching dimorphic sexes and immature stages with adults: Resolving the systematics of the Bekilya group of Malagasy assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Peiratinae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-138

  Zhang, Guanyang ^a   Weirauch, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TAXONOMY; WASP;

MADAGASCAR;

HEMIPTERA; MUTILLIDAE; PEIRATINAE; REDUVIIDAE;

EID: 78651295852     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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