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The fauna of the rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the southern Meshchera Lowland

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The fauna of rove beetles of the sandur landscape in southern Meshchera (Ryazan Province), noted for the contrasting mesorelief forms, was studied for the first time. The regional fauna was found to comprise 178 species, of which 143 are listed for the first time. The core of the faunistic complex of rove beetles consists of Holarctic, Trans-Eurasian, and Euro-Siberian species, most of which commonly occur in the forest zone of European Russia. At the same time, some species distributed in the valley landscapes of Eastern Europe (Bledius tenenbaumi, Xantholinus dvoraki) have been recorded in southern Meshchera.

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Original Russian Text © V.S. Piryugin, 2010, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 280–286.

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Piryugin, V.S. The fauna of the rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the southern Meshchera Lowland. Entmol. Rev. 90, 433–440 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873810040044

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