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A comment: Functional feeding groups as a taxonomic surrogate for a grassland arthropod assemblage

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Mlambo, Musa C. (2011): A comment: Functional feeding groups as a taxonomic surrogate for a grassland arthropod assemblage. African Invertebrates 52 (2): 587, DOI: 10.5733/afin.052.0218, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.052.0218

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