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New and Little-Known Species of the Weevil Genus Otiorhynchus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Iran

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Two new species of the subgenus Pseudotiorhynchus Magnano, 2004 are described from Iran: Otiorhynchus shakhvarensis Savitsky, sp. n. and O. berberidis Savitsky, sp. n. New data on the taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of some little known species of the subgenera Dibredus Reitter, 1912 and Davidianaxius AlonsoZarazaga, 2013 are given. The subgenus Dibredus is recorded from Iran for the first time.

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The author is sincerely grateful to D.G. Kasatkin (Rostov-on-Don) for the material accorded for examination, B.A. Korotyaev (ZIN) and A.A. Gusakov (ZMMU) for the opportunity to examine the material from the collections of the corresponding institutes, and also to K.V. Makarov (Moscow) for help in taking some photographs for the present study.

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The study was supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation (no. 14-50-00029, examination of the material and performance of the illustrations) and by state project no. AAAA-A16-116021660095-7 (work with the text).

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Savitsky, V.Y. New and Little-Known Species of the Weevil Genus Otiorhynchus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Iran. Entmol. Rev. 100, 101–116 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873820010108

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