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A review of the merkli group of the weevil genus Plinthus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

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The merkli group of the weevil genus Plinthus is revised. Plinthus navarsati Davidian et Savitsky, sp. n. is described from Northeastern Turkey. New data on the morphology and geographical distribution of P. merkli Frivaldszki, 1894, P. cavazzutii Meregalli, 1985, and P. latipennis Meregalli, 1985 are given, with a key to all the four species of the merkli group.

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  1. All-Russia Institute of Plant Protection, St. Petersburg, Pushkin, 196608, Russia

    G. E. Davidian

  2. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    V. Yu. Savitsky

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Original Russian Text © G.E. Davidian, V.Yu. Savitsky, 2017, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2017, Vol. 96, No. 8, pp. 899–910.

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Davidian, G.E., Savitsky, V.Y. A review of the merkli group of the weevil genus Plinthus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Entmol. Rev. 97, 920–931 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873817070089

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