Misinterpreting global species numbers: Examples from Coleoptera

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 2-6

  Löbl, Ivan ^a   Leschen, Richard A B ^b  

^a MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

^b New Zealand Arthropod Collection   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84891832843     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12042     Document Type: Article

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