Revision of the culicoides (Avaritia) imicola complex khamala & kettle (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Australasian region

Zootaxa

Volumn 3768, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 401-427

  Bellis, Glenn ^a   Dyce, Alan ^b,c   Gopurenko, David ^d,e   Yanase, Tohru ^f   Garros, Claire ^g   Labuschagne, Karien ^h   Mitchell, Andrew ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute ^*  (Australia)

^d NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^e EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation   (Australia)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^g UMR ASTRE   (France)

^h ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biting midges; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALASIA; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84894623710     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.4.1     Document Type: Article

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