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The Status of present taxonomic services in Southern Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

M. E. A. Materu
M. E. A. Materu
Affiliation:
International Red Locust Control Organisation for Central and Southern Africa, Mbala, Zambia
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Extract

Although organised insect taxonomic services have been in existence in Southern Africa for about 50 years these services are still inadequate and unsatisfactory. To improve this situation there is a need to make insect taxonomy more attractive to prospective entomologists by providing adequate funds, equipment and other facilities. There is also a need to create centralised well-funded and well-staffed institutions in which directed taxonomic studies can be carried out by linking posts with various collections at the same time leaving untreated groups to universities.

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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 1981 , pp. 431 - 433
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Copyright © ICIPE 1981

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