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A review of species of the sciarid-fly genus Lycoriella Frey (Diptera, Sciaridae) of the Altai fauna

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The paper presents a review of 14 species of the sciarid genus Lycoriella Frey from Altai, all of them being recorded for the region for the first time. Two new species, L. subcochleata sp. n. and L. altaica sp. n., are described.

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Original Russian Text © S.S. Komarov, 2009, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2009, Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 99–105.

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Komarov, S.S. A review of species of the sciarid-fly genus Lycoriella Frey (Diptera, Sciaridae) of the Altai fauna. Entmol. Rev. 89, 175–180 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809020067

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