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Lidén Number 184
Respondent: Anders Dahl (1751-1789)
Title: ... Bigas Insectorum sistens, ...
Date of Defense: 18 December 1775
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-7, [1], 1 plate
Lidén Title: Bigae insectorum.
Soulsby Title: Bigas insect.
Drake Title: Diss. Entomol. Bigas Insectorum sistens.
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Abstract: This work provides descriptions of two new genera of insects, Diopsis (a dipterous fly) and Paussus, from the collection of John Fothergill, M.D. (1712-1780), who sent much New World material to Linnaeus.