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The leaf-miner flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) of Costa Rican cloud forests
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- 1. Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, H9X 3V9.
- 2. Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, USA.
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Boucher, Stéphanie, Borkent, Art, Brown, Brian V. (2025): The leaf-miner flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) of Costa Rican cloud forests. Zootaxa 5633 (2): 251-287, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5633.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.2.3
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