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The Provancher Types of Orthoptera1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

V. R. Vickery
Affiliation:
Macdonald College, Quebec
D. K. McE. Kevan
Affiliation:
Macdonald College, Quebec

Abstract

The status and the condition of the type specimens of Orthoptera described by the Abbé Léon Provancher, the pioneer entomologist of Québec, are discussed.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1964

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