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Issue: Vol. 3148 No. 1: 23 Dec. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-12-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.41
Page range: 212–221
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Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

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