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A molecular biogeographic analysis of the relationship between North American melanoploid grasshoppers and their Eurasian and South American relatives.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Mar 2001
Chapco W, Litzenberger G, Kuperus W R
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The Melanoplinae constitute one of the two largest subfamilies of Acrididae. Distributed mainly throughout the New World and parts of Eurasia, this group of grasshoppers includes over 100 genera and 800 species. Over the past five decades there has been considerable speculation on the origins of North and South American taxa. The most favored hypothesis proposes an ancient division of Laurasian taxa accompanying...
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