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Swarming microbombyliids (Diptera, Mythicomyiidae) in amber from Ukraine: a new species and a new synonymy
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- 1. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark & I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev 01030, Ukraine
- 2. Department of Pathogenic Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- 3. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Perkovsky, Evgeny E., Sun, Haoran, Perkovsky, Alisa A., Pape, Thomas (2025): Swarming microbombyliids (Diptera, Mythicomyiidae) in amber from Ukraine: a new species and a new synonymy. Zootaxa 5716 (2): 234-244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.3
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