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- ↑ Callirhipidae Archived October 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at insects.tamu.edu.
- ↑ Jiří Hájek (2011) World catalogue of the family Callirhipidae (Coleoptera: Elateriformia), with nomenclatural notes. Zootaxa 2914: 1–66.
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