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Survey of the semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from Alagoas and Sergipe, Northeast Brazil
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- 1. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 2. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & leticianerya@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4499-8442
- 3. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.
- 4. Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. & ppmeiameiameia@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6692-0323
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Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Nery, Leticia, Rodrigues, Higor D. D., Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo (2021): Survey of the semiaquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from Alagoas and Sergipe, Northeast Brazil. Zootaxa 4958 (1): 103-159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.9
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