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Descriptions of the mature larvae of Meligethes (Astylogethes) corvinus Erichson, 1845 and M. (A.) subrugosus (Gyllenhal, 1808) (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae)

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Mature larvae of two species of the nitidulid genus Meligethes Stephens, 1830, subgenus Astylogethes Kirejtshuk, 1992, are described from Samara Province. Data on the bionomics of these species are given. The material used in the descriptions and the corresponding permanent slides with the mature larvae are deposited in the collection of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Kurochkin, 2007, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 869–879.

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Kurochkin, A.S. Descriptions of the mature larvae of Meligethes (Astylogethes) corvinus Erichson, 1845 and M. (A.) subrugosus (Gyllenhal, 1808) (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae). Entmol. Rev. 87, 1281–1289 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873807090175

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