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Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species
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Salden, Tobias, Peters, Ralph S. (2023): Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 884 (1): 1-386, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.884.2181, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.884.2181
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