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On the Armenian fauna of the Hydrophilid genus Berosus Leach (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae)

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The study of the genus Berosus Leach in Armenia has revealed six species of the subgenera Berosus s. str. and Enoplurus Hope. Based on examination of the external and internal characters, diagnosis of the genus, a key to the subgenera and species, and descriptions of all the species are given and provided with figures of the mouthparts, antennae, thorax, ventrites, fore tarsus of the male, urite IX of both sexes, aedeagus, and ovipositor. Data on the general range and distribution in Armenia are given for each species.

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  1. Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

    M. A. Marjanian

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Original Russian Text © M.A. Marjanian, 2009, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2009, Vol. 88, No. 3, pp. 542–552.

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Marjanian, M.A. On the Armenian fauna of the Hydrophilid genus Berosus Leach (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Entmol. Rev. 89, 805–814 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809070069

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