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Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

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Kundrata, Robin (2017): Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Zootaxa 4323 (2): 151-184, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.1

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