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Three new cryptic species of the genus Merodon Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the island of Lesvos (Greece)

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  • 1. Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovi a 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 2. Finnish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Department, PO Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 3. University Research Institute, CIBIO / Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Alicante, Alicante E-03080, Spain Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, University Hill, GR-81100 Mytilene, Greece.

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Radenković, Snežana, Vujić, Ante, Ståhls, Gunilla, Pérez-Bañón, Celeste, Rojo, Santos, Petanidou, Theodora, Šimić, Smiljka (2011): Three new cryptic species of the genus Merodon Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the island of Lesvos (Greece). Zootaxa 2735 (1): 35-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2735.1.5, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2735.1.5

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