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Desert Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Thaumastellidae): New records and review of the distribution and habitat of this relict group
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- 1. Department of Entomology, National Museum of the Czech Republic, Cirkusová 1740, CZ-193 00 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic
- 2. Oppenheimer Generations, Research and Conservation, P.O. Box 61631, Marshalltown, 2107, South Africa & Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
- 3. University of Palermo; corresponding address: via Sandro Botticelli 15, 90144 Palermo, Italy
- 4. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin, Germany
- 5. Department of Entomology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
- 6. Plant Protection Institute, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
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Kment, Petr, Jacobs, Dawid H., Carapezza, Attilio, Deckert, Jürgen, Rider, David A., Kóbor, Péter (2024): Desert Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Thaumastellidae): New records and review of the distribution and habitat of this relict group. Zootaxa 5541 (2): 144-162, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.2.2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5541.2.2
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