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Description and taxonomic position of a new genus and species of southern African pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)

  • 1. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ - 14800 Praha, Czech Republic. E-mail: JJ.Nitidula@seznam.cz Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832- 1448, USA. E-mail: acline@cdfa.ca.gov
  • 2. Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I - 00185, Rome, Italy. E-mail: emiliano.mancini@uniroma1.it

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Audisio, P., Jelínek, J., Cline, A.R., Mancini, E., Trizzino, M., Cerretti, P., Antonini, G. (2011): Description and taxonomic position of a new genus and species of southern African pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae). Zootaxa 2927 (1): 49-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2927.1.3, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2927.1.3

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