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New Data on Alien Weevil Species (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in the European Part of Russia

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This article presents new data on the distribution of a number of alien species of weevil beetles in the European part of Russia. Populations of Otiorhynchus porcatus (Herbst, 1795), O. asphaltinus Germar, 1823, O. pseudonothus Apfelbeck, 1897, and Pholicodes inauratus Boheman, 1833 have been found in Moscow for the first time. The species of North American origin Lignyodes bischoffi (Blatchley, 1916) has been recorded in the Republic of Crimea, Krasnodar krai, Kursk oblast, and Moscow for the first time; Orchestes steppensis Korotyaev, 2016 has been found in the Republic of Dagestan; and O. sulcatus (Fabricius, 1775) has been found in Pskov and Tver oblasts for the first time. A dramatic increase in the secondary range of Polydrusus formosus (Mayer, 1779) in Moscow oblast has been observed in recent years.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to A.O. Bieńkowski and M.Ya. Orlova-Bienkowskaya (Moscow), S.A. Bieńkowski (Moscow), A.S. Bondarenko (Center for Forest Protection of Krasnodar krai, city of Krasnodar), A.S. Vlasenko (Timiryazev State Biological Museum, Moscow), F.S. Byzov and D.I. Polyakov (Moscow State University, Moscow), S.V. Dedyukhin (Udmurt State University, Izhevsk), L.V. Egorov (Prisursky State Reserve, Cheboksary), E.Yu. Rodionova (Russian Research Institute of Biological Plant Protection, Krasnodar), D.I. Ryaskin (Voronezh State University, Voronezh), Ya.A. Urbanus (Center for Environmental Projects, Lipetsk), R.A. Khryapin (Moscow), V.V. Shaporinskii (Simferopol), and V.O. Shvetsova (Petrozavodsk).

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Zabaluev, I.A. New Data on Alien Weevil Species (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in the European Part of Russia. Russ J Biol Invasions 14, 322–328 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075111723030207

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