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First Inventory Of The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Gerromorpha) Of Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia

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Zettel, Herbert, Tran, A. D. (2009): First Inventory Of The Water Bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Gerromorpha) Of Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2): 279-295, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342032

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