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Annotated catalogue of the flower bugs from India (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae, Lasiochilidae)

  • 1. National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India; e-mail: ballalchandish@gmail.com
  • 2. Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar, 190007 India; e-mail: kingakbarali@gmail.com
  • 3. Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Bunka-no-Mori Park, Mukoterayama, Hachiman-cho, Tokushima, 770-8070 Japan;
  • 4. Department of Zoology, Government Degree College, Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, 192303 India; e-mail: aijaz_shoorida@yahoo.co.in

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Ballal, Chandish R., Akbar, Shahid Ali, Yamada, Kazutaka, Wachkoo, Aijaz Ahmad, Varshney, Richa (2018): Annotated catalogue of the flower bugs from India (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae, Lasiochilidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1): 207-226, DOI: 10.2478/aemnp-2018-0018

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