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Chironomidae (Diptera) of Croatia with notes on the diversity and distribution in various habitat types

  • 1. Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Cara Hadrijana 8/A, 31000 Osijek, Croatia.
  • 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. zlatko.mihaljevic@biol.pmf.hr; http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4122-2884
  • 3. Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Niš, Višegradska 33, 18000 Niš, Serbia. djuradj@pmf.ni.ac.rs; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5328-3898
  • 4. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovsky street 40, 974 01 Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. ladislav.hamerlik@umb.sk; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0803-8981

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Čerba, Dubravka, Koh, Miran, Ergović, Viktorija, Mihaljević, Zlatko, Milošević, Djuradj, Hamerlík, Ladislav (2020): Chironomidae (Diptera) of Croatia with notes on the diversity and distribution in various habitat types. Zootaxa 4780 (2): 259-274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.2.2

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