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References
- ↑ "Blissus insularis Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- 1 2 "Blissus insularis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ↑ Reinert, James A. (15 September 1978). "Natural Enemy Complex of the Southern Chinch Bug1 in Florida2". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 71 (5): 728–731. doi:10.1093/aesa/71.5.728. ISSN 1938-2901.
- Nishida, Gordon M., ed. (2003). "Hawaiian Terrestrial Arthropod Checklist, 4th ed.". Bishop Museum Technical Reports no. 22, iv + 313.
- Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. (1988). Catalog of the Heteroptera, True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States. Brill Academic Publishers.
