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- 1 2 "Australian Faunal Directory: Rhytiphora lepida". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ↑ Ernst Friedrich Germar (1848). "Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide" (PDF). Linnaea entomologica (in German). 3: 153–247. Wikidata Q108464804.
- ↑ BioLib.cz - Zaeeropsis lepida. Retrieved 8 September 2014.