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Issue: Vol. 5609 No. 2: 20 Mar. 2025
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2025-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.2.11
Page range: 298-300
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Correction: Misidentification of a distinct species of Mansonia in India as the New World Psorophora columbiae (Diptera: Culicidae)

Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory; University of Florida; Vero Beach; Florida; USA.
Department of Science; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road; London SW7 5BD; UK.
Diptera Culicidae India

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