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Biological Characteristics of the Terrestrial Firefly Pyrocoelia pectoralis (Cleoptera: Lampyridae)

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Wang, Yuyong, Fu, Xinhua, Lei, Chaoliang, Jeng, Ming-Luen, Nobuyoshi, Ohba (2007): Biological Characteristics of the Terrestrial Firefly Pyrocoelia pectoralis (Cleoptera: Lampyridae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 61 (1): 85-93, DOI: 10.1649/907.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/907.1

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