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Austroconops Wirth and Lee, a Lower Cretaceous Genus of Biting Midges Yet Living in Western Australia: a New Species, First Description of the Immatures and Discussion of Their Biology and Phylogeny (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

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BORKENT, ART, CRAIG, DOUGLAS A. (2004): Austroconops Wirth and Lee, a Lower Cretaceous Genus of Biting Midges Yet Living in Western Australia: a New Species, First Description of the Immatures and Discussion of Their Biology and Phylogeny (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). American Museum Novitates 3449: 1-68, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2004)449<0001:AWALAL>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282004%29449%3C0001%3AAWALAL%3E2.0.CO%3B2

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