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Wanted, tracked down and identified: Mesozoic non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae (Chironomidae, Diptera)

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Giłka, Wojciech, Zakrzewska, Marta, Lukashevich, Elena D., Vorontsov, Dmitry D., Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka, Skibińska, Kornelia, Cranston, Peter S. (2022): Wanted, tracked down and identified: Mesozoic non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae (Chironomidae, Diptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194: 874-892, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab020

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