Hoverfly diversity (diptera: Syrphidae) in a mediterranean scrub community near athens, greece

Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 168-175

  Petanidou, Theodora ^a   Vujić, Ante ^b   Ellis, Willem N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entomological net; Faunistics; Malaise trap; Phrygana; Sampling methods; Species richness

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; SYRPHIDAE;

EID: 80053950234     PISSN: 00379271     EISSN: 21686351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2011.10697709     Document Type: Article

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