Revision of the fishfly genus Platychauliodes Esben-Petersen (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) endemic to South Africa

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2909, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Liu, Xingyue ^a   Price, Ben W ^b,c   Hayashi, Fumio ^d   Yang, Ding ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Albany Museum   (South Africa)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chauliodinae; Megaloptera; Platychauliodes; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CHAULIODES; CHAULIODINAE; CORYDALIDAE; MEGALOPTERA;

EID: 79958746268     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2909.1.1     Document Type: Article

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