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Two new palaearctic species of the genus Scoliophthalmus Becker, 1903 (Diptera, Chloropidae) with a key to the species occurring in the Palaearctic Region

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Two new species of the genus Scoliophthalmus Becker, 1903 (Diptera, Chloropidae) are described: S. miscanthi sp. n. from southern Primorskii Territory (Russia) and S. gussakovskii sp. n. from southern Tajikistan. The genus is recorded for Russia for the first time. The species of Scoliophthalmus occur only in the southern areas of the Palaearctic Region. A key to eight species occurring in the Palaearctic Region is given.

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  1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    E. P. Nartshuk

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Original Russian Text © E.P. Nartshuk, 2016, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2016, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 383–390.

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Nartshuk, E.P. Two new palaearctic species of the genus Scoliophthalmus Becker, 1903 (Diptera, Chloropidae) with a key to the species occurring in the Palaearctic Region. Entmol. Rev. 96, 355–360 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001387381603012X

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