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Supplementary material 1
Table S1
Authors: Shunpei Fujie, So Shimizu, Koichi Tone, Kazunori Matsuo, Kaoru Maeto
Data type: excel (.xslx) file
Explanation note: Table S1. Examined materials Meteorus stellatus sp. nov.
Copyright notice: This dataset is made available under the Open Database License
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use this Dataset while maintaining this same freedom for others, provided that the
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Supplementary material 2
Table S2
Authors: Shunpei Fujie, So Shimizu, Koichi Tone, Kazunori Matsuo, Kaoru Maeto
Data type: excel (.xslx) file
Explanation note: Table S2. Gene bank accession numbers for the sampled taxa in the
analyses.
Copyright notice: This dataset is made available under the Open Database License
(http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/). The Open Database License
(ODbL) is a license agreement intended to allow users to freely share, modify, and
use this Dataset while maintaining this same freedom for others, provided that the
original source and author(s) are credited.
Link: https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.86.71225.suppl2
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