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Colonization and diversification of the species Brachyderes rugatus (Coleoptera) on the Canary Islands: evidence from mitochondrial DNA COII gene sequences.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jun 2000
Emerson B C, Oromí P, Hewitt G M
Abstract excerpt
The genus Brachyderes Schönherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is represented by the species B. rugatus Wollaston on the Canary Islands, with one subspecies on each of the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, and El Hierro. These four subspecies are associated with the endemic pine tree Pinus canariensis, and their distributions are broadly coincident. Eighty-eight individual Canarian Brachyderes, sampled...
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