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Higher-Level Phylogeny and Reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)

  • 1. Department of Biology, 4102 LSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602,
  • 2. Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602,
  • 3. Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611,
  • 4. Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602,
  • 5. Max-Planck Junior Scientist Group on Evolutionary Genomics, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu Kunming, Yunnan 650223
  • 6. Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306,
  • 7. Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306,

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Martin, Gavin J., Stanger-Hall, Kathrin F., Branham, Marc A., Da Silveira, Luiz F. L., Lower, Sarah E., Hall, David W., Li, Xue-Yan, Lemmon, Alan R., Lemmon, Emily Moriarty, Bybee, Seth M. (2019): Higher-Level Phylogeny and Reclassification of Lampyridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea). Insect Systematics and Diversity (AIFB) 3 (6), No. 11: 1-15, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixz024, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixz024

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