Notes on Ptilomera agriodes (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) from Eastern Ghats, India
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The present study reports an aquatic hemipteran species Ptilomera agriodes (Schmidt, 1926) distributed in different streams and waterfalls of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for the first time.
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