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References
- ↑ Albert C. L. G. Günther; William S. Dullas; Wiliam Carruthers; William Francis; Arthur Gardiner Butler (1878). "XLV.—Descriptions of new species of Heterocera from Japan.—Part III. Geometrites". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 5th series. London: Taylor and Francis. I (5): 394.
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