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New species of the Buprestid genus Sphenoptera Dejean from India and Pakistan with notes on the synonymy and nomenclature of some species of the subgenus Sphenoptera s. str. (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)

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Sphenoptera (s. str.) galkae sp. n. from North Pakistan and. S. (s. str.) jacobsonorum sp. n. from India (Jammu and Kashmir State) are described and compared with closely related species. New synonymy is established for the following taxa: S. hypocrita Mannerheim, 1837 (= S. torrida Jakovlev, 1898; S. ixion Kerremans, 1912, synn. n.), S. bodemeyeri Jakovlev, 1900 (= S. quadrata Kerremans, 1909, syn. n.), S. exoleta Jakovlev, 1908 (= S. politipennis Obenberger, 1927, syn. n.), S. obruta Kerremans, 1909 (= S. chalcosoma Obenberger, 1927; S. abbreviata hetera Obenberger, 1927, synn. n.), S. tragacanthae (Klug, 1829) (= S. maledicta Obenberger, 1920; S. cilicica Obenberger, 1927; S. rambouseki Obenberger, 1927; S. klickai Obenberger, 1927; S. corrosa Obenberger, 1927; S. satrapa Obenberger, 1927; S. syriae Obenberger, 1927; S. vavrai Obenberger, 1927, synn. n.), S. magna Gory et Laporte, 1839 (= S. alexandri Obenberger, 1927, syn. n.). Lectotypes for 74 nominal species and subspecies are designated.

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Original Russian Text © M.Yu. Kalashian, M.G. Volkovitsh, 2009, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2009, Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 400–415.

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Kalashian, M.Y., Volkovitsh, M.G. New species of the Buprestid genus Sphenoptera Dejean from India and Pakistan with notes on the synonymy and nomenclature of some species of the subgenus Sphenoptera s. str. (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Entmol. Rev. 89, 437–450 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809040083

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