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A review of the leaf-beetle genus Chrysolina Motschulsky (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Russia and European countries of the former USSR: I. A key to species with developed hind wings

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An illustrated key to the species and subspecies of Chrysolina Motschulsky, distributed in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, and the Baltic countries, is given and provided with data on the distribution and host plants. The publication includes three parts. The present, first part provides a key to 56 species with developed hind wings.

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Original Russian Text © A.O. Bieńkowski, 2010, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2010, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 612–633.

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Bieńkowski, A.O. A review of the leaf-beetle genus Chrysolina Motschulsky (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Russia and European countries of the former USSR: I. A key to species with developed hind wings. Entmol. Rev. 90, 885–902 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873810070079

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