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On the distribution of the bush cricket Platycleis albopunctata transiens Zeuner, 1941 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) in the south of European Russia and in Uzbekistan

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Based on examination of the morphological characters and comparative analysis of the male calling acoustic signals, distribution of the subspecies Platycleis albopunctata transiens Zeuner, 1941 in the south of European Russia (Crimea and North Caucasus) and in Uzbekistan is proved.

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Original Russian Text © O.S. Korsunovskaya, 2016, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2016, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 301–308.

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Korsunovskaya, O.S. On the distribution of the bush cricket Platycleis albopunctata transiens Zeuner, 1941 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) in the south of European Russia and in Uzbekistan. Entmol. Rev. 96, 288–293 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873816030064

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