A new species of Margaromantis Piza, 1982 (Insecta: Mantodea) from Brazil

Eliomar da Cruz Menezes1, Freddy Bravo1

  • 1Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil.

Biodiversity Data Journal
|February 21, 2015
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