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New and Rare in Northwestern Russia Weevil Species (Coleoptera: Nanophyidae, Curculionidae)

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In 2021 and 2022, three species of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Nanophyidae)—Nanomimus circumscriptus (Aubé), Mononychus punctumalbum (Herbst) and Curculio glandium Marsham, 1802, new to Northwestern Russia, were discovered in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Province. In 1990, a single specimen of Otiorhynchus aurosparsus Germar was found in St. Petersburg. Liophloeus tessulatus (O.F. Müller) has been sporadically found in this region since the 19th century. A predominantly steppe species, Polydrusus inustus (Germar), also occurs in small numbers since the early 19th century in the southwestern part of St. Petersburg and is not known from the neighboring regions of the Russian North-West and the Baltic states.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We greatly acknowledge P.V. Romantsov’s (St. Petersburg) collecting of the species new to the region, detailed information on its habitat, and donation of the specimen to the ZIN collection. We are also deeply grateful to A.Yu. Matov, I.S. Smirnov, and A.V. Stekolshchikov (St. Petersburg, ZIN) for finding of the rare in the Russian North-West weevil species, and to V.A. Koval (St. Petersburg) for his multifaceted assistance in the study of insects in Leningrad Province.

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The study was performed within the framework of the state projects of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation no. 122032900139-8 of the All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection and no. 122031100272-3 of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences based on the ZIN collection.

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Koval, A.G., Korotyaev, B.A. New and Rare in Northwestern Russia Weevil Species (Coleoptera: Nanophyidae, Curculionidae). Entmol. Rev. 103, 444–449 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001387382304005X

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