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New fossil representative of the genus Helius (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the little known and newly discovered locality Caergen Village of northeastern Tibetan Plateau (China)

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Wu, Siyuan, Krzemiński, Wiesław, Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka, Ren, Dong (2019): New fossil representative of the genus Helius (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the little known and newly discovered locality Caergen Village of northeastern Tibetan Plateau (China). Palaeontologia Electronica (2A) 22 (1): 1-8, DOI: 10.26879/817, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/817

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