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Issue: Vol. 5471 No. 4: 20 Jun. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-06-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.4.9
Page range: 496-500
Abstract views: 11
PDF downloaded: 2

Male genitalia of the fungus-growing ants Mycocepurus goeldii (Forel, 1893) and Mycocepurus smithii (Forel, 1893) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)

Pós-Graduação em Entomologia; Departamento de Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; Minas Gerais; Brazil.
Pós-Graduação em Ecologia; Departamento de Biologia Geral; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; Departamento de Biologia Geral; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; Minas Gerais; Brazil.
Departamento de Biologia Geral; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; Minas Gerais; Brazil.
Hymenoptera Mycocepurus goeldii Mycocepurus smithii

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