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On the fauna of the bristletail family Machilidae (Thysanura) of the Caucasus and southern Kazakhstan

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Four new species, Trigoniophthalmus dombayi sp. n. from Stavropol Province, T. vorontzovi sp. n. and T. montanus sp. n. from Krasnodar Province, Allopsontus varvarae sp. n. from southeastern Kazakhstan, and the new subgenus Allopsontus (Aridopsontinus) subgen. n., are described. Keys to all the known species of the genus Trigoniophthalmus Verh. from the Caucasus and to subgenera of the genus Allopsontus Silv. of the world fauna are given.

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Original Russian Text © V.G. Kaplin, 2012, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 288–303.

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Kaplin, V.G. On the fauna of the bristletail family Machilidae (Thysanura) of the Caucasus and southern Kazakhstan. Entmol. Rev. 92, 951–965 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873812090011

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