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Faunistic data of Sepsidae (Diptera) from Switzerland and additional countries including the first Swiss record of Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984)

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Patrick T.Rohner, Gerhard Bächli (2016): Faunistic data of Sepsidae (Diptera) from Switzerland and additional countries including the first Swiss record of Meroplius fukuharai (Iwasa, 1984). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 89: 237-260, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.192634

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