Abstract
Rhagiosoma madagascariense (Heyden, 1877) is recorded for the first time from the former Toliara Province in Southwestern Madagascar. Description of the habitat and photographs of the live and collection specimens are presented.
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Acknowledgments
The visit of V.M. Gnezdilov to Madagascar was possible thanks to Prof. Thierry Bourgoin (Paris, France) and Mr. Evrard Wendenbaum (Naturevolution president, Grenoble, France). We are grateful to Dr. Richard Razakamalala (Antananarivo, Madagascar) for the identifi cation of Cordia mixa L. and Dr. Kirill V. Makarov (Moscow) for the excellent photograph of the beetle.
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The study of B.A. Korotyaev was performed based on the ZIN collection within the State Program no. AAAA-A19-119020690082-8 and was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 19-04-00565 A).
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Korotyaev, B.A., Gnezdilov, V.M. New Data on the Distribution and Ecology of Rhagiosoma madagascariense (Heyden, 1877) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Sagrinae). Entmol. Rev. 99, 1295–1298 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819090069
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