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The new species Gnaptor medvedevi sp. n. is described from southwestern Turkey. The new species is closely related to G. spinimanus but differs from it in narrower parameres, in the structure of the spiculum gastrale, and in the sculpture of the prothoracic hypomera. The new monotypical subgenus Plesiognaptor subgen. n. is described for G. prolixus; the distribution of each species is described. New data on the range of G. prolixus are added. This species is known from Turkey (Izmir, Aydin, Afyon, Konya, and Isparta provinces) and Iran (Elburs, the first record for the country). A key to and illustrations for all the species of the genus Gnaptor are given.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Chigray, M.V. Nabozhenko, B. Keskin, 2015, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2015, Vol. 94, No. 11, pp. 1276–1281.
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Chigray, I.A., Nabozhenko, M.V. & Keskin, B. A review of the genus Gnaptor Brullé, 1832 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) with description of a new species from Turkey. Entmol. Rev. 95, 1131–1136 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873815080205
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