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- ↑ Li, Xuankun; St Laurent, Ryan; Earl, Chandra; Doorenweerd, Camiel; Nieukerken, Erik J.; Davis, Donald R.; Johns, Chris A.; Kawakita, Atsushi; Kobayashi, Shigeki; Zwick, Andreas; Lopez‐Vaamonde, Carlos; Ohshima, Issei; Kawahara, Akito Y. (June 2022). "Phylogeny of gracillariid leaf‐mining moths: evolution of larval behaviour inferred from phylogenomic and Sanger data". Cladistics. 38 (3): 277–300. doi:10.1111/cla.12490. ISSN 0748-3007.