Insect biodiversity and industrialising the taxonomic process: The plant bug case study (insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae)

Reconstructing the Tree of Life: Taxonomy and Systematics of Species Rich Taxa

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 193-212

  Cassis, G ^a   Wall, M A ^b   Schuh, R T ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 79959448313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420009538     Document Type: Chapter

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