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Type designations for Neotropical water beetles in the genus Hydrochus Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae)

Philip D Perkins1

  • 1Department of Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.. perkins@oeb.harvard.edu.

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