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A checklist of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) from Iran

All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Pushkin; St. Petersburg; 196608 Russia; Biological Faculty; M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University; Moscow; 119234 Russia
Department of Plant Protection; Yadegar-e Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch; Islamic Azad University; Tehran; Iran
Coleoptera False click-beetles faunal checklist species diversity distribution Iran

Abstract

The distribution of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) of Iran is summarized and an annotated checklist of the Iranian Eucnemidae is provided. A total of 16 species within 13 genera in four subfamilies of the family are listed.

 

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