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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2022-07-06
Page range: 198-200
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Reconsideration of the status of subspecies in the Japonicus Group of the subgenus Hulecoeteomyia Theobald of Aedes Meigen (Diptera: Culicidae)

Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
Center of Insect Vector Study, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Diptera Culicidae

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