Redefining the damselfly families: A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Zygoptera (Odonata)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 68-96

  Dijkstra, Klaas Douwe B ^a,b   Kalkman, Vincent J ^a   Dow, Rory A ^a   Stokvis, Frank R ^a   Van Tol, Jan ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMSELFLY; DATA SET; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

AMPHIPTERYGIDAE; CALOPTERYGIDAE; CHLOROCYPHIDAE; COENAGRION; COENAGRIONIDAE; COENAGRIONOIDEA; COPERA; DEVADATTA; ISOSTICTIDAE; LIOCHELINAE; MEGAPODAGRIONIDAE; ODONATA; PLATYCNEMIDIDAE; PLATYSTICTIDAE; PROTONEURIDAE; PROTOSTICTA; PSEUDOSTIGMATIDAE; THAUMATONEURIDAE; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 84891831340     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12035     Document Type: Article

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