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The first record of the shore fly Paracoenia fumosalis (Diptera, Ephydridae) in the Palaearctic region

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Paracoenia fumosalis Cresson previously known only from the USA and Canada is recorded in the Palaearctic Region for the first time. The adults were collected near a thermal hydrosulfuric spring in the Geiser Valley in Kamchatka. A key to species of the genus Paracoenia occurring in Russia is given.

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Original Russian Text © M.G. Krivosheina, L.E. Lobkova, 2006, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 85, No. 12, pp. 1503–1505.

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Krivosheina, M.G., Lobkova, L.E. The first record of the shore fly Paracoenia fumosalis (Diptera, Ephydridae) in the Palaearctic region. Entmol. Rev. 86, 1105–1107 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873806090119

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