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Reading the complex skipper butterfly fauna of one tropical place.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Janzen Daniel H, Hallwachs Winnie, Burns John M, Hajibabaei Mehrdad, Bertrand Claudia, Hebert Paul D N
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BACKGROUND: An intense, 30-year, ongoing biodiversity inventory of Lepidoptera, together with their food plants and parasitoids, is centered on the rearing of wild-caught caterpillars in the 120,000 terrestrial hectares of dry, rain, and cloud forest of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. Since 2003, DNA barcoding of all species has aided their identification and discovery. We...
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