Variation in Taxonomic Characters of Some Simuliidae (Diptera)

1 January 1949

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist

Vol. 81 (1), 18-21
https://doi.org/10.4039/ent8118-1

Abstract

In examining a long series of several species of blackflies collected in Algonquin Park, Ontario, it was found that characters, often key characters, used in identifying adults as well as pupae showed variations from those described by previous authors.

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