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Description of a new soldier-fly species of the genus Adoxomyia Kertész, 1907 (Diptera, Stratiomyidae), based on adults and larva from Azerbaijan

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A new species of the soldier-fly genus Adoxomyia Kertesz, 1907, A. variabilis sp. n., is described from Azerbaijan. The larvae were found in the Astragalus roots damaged by larvae of the buprestid genus Sphenoptera. The adults (males and females) are proved to belong to a species closely related to A. transcaucasica Nartshuk, 2004 but differing in the structure and coloration of the antennae, in the pubescence of the eye of the female, in details of the pubescence of the head in the male, and in the structure of the male genitalia. Differences of the adults and the larva from those of the closely related species are listed.

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Original Russian Text © N.P. Krivosheina, 2016, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2016, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 394–404.

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Krivosheina, N.P. Description of a new soldier-fly species of the genus Adoxomyia Kertész, 1907 (Diptera, Stratiomyidae), based on adults and larva from Azerbaijan. Entmol. Rev. 96, 366–374 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873814030143

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