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Record of the second species of the East Asian seed-beetle genus Megabruchidius Borowiec (Coleoptera, Bruchidae) in the Gleditsia seeds in Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, Russia

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Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhraeus), an introduced Eastern Asian seed beetle, was reared from Gleditsia triacanthos pods collected in Krasnodar and Stavropol territories in October 2013. The species has become established in several European countries since 1989 and is for the first time recorded from Russia.

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Original Russian Text © B.A. Korotyaev, 2015, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2015, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 100–102.

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Korotyaev, B.A. Record of the second species of the East Asian seed-beetle genus Megabruchidius Borowiec (Coleoptera, Bruchidae) in the Gleditsia seeds in Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, Russia. Entmol. Rev. 95, 1237–1239 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873815090110

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