A review of the merkli group of the weevil genus Plinthus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
- Authors: Davidian G.E.1, Savitsky V.Y.2
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Affiliations:
- All-Russia Institute of Plant Protection
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: Vol 97, No 7 (2017)
- Pages: 920-931
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0013-8738/article/view/155287
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873817070089
- ID: 155287
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Abstract
The merkli group of the weevil genus Plinthus is revised. Plinthus navarsati Davidian et Savitsky, sp. n. is described from Northeastern Turkey. New data on the morphology and geographical distribution of P. merkli Frivaldszki, 1894, P. cavazzutii Meregalli, 1985, and P. latipennis Meregalli, 1985 are given, with a key to all the four species of the merkli group.
About the authors
G. E. Davidian
All-Russia Institute of Plant Protection
Author for correspondence.
Email: gdavidian@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Pushkin, 196608
V. Yu. Savitsky
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Email: gdavidian@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
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