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New and Interesting Records of Weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) in the South of the Volga Upland

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Data on 13 zoogeographically significant species of weevils (Curculionoidea) discovered in 2022 in the south of the Volga Upland are reported. In particular, 11 species are recorded for the first time for the fauna of Saratov Province: Melanobaris semistriata, M. atramentaria, Aulacobaris angusta, Ceutorhynchus talickyi, C. inaffectatus, C. griseus, Oxyonyx brisouti, Pseudorchestes exiguus, Otiorhynchus asphaltinus, O. concinnus, and Phacephorus nebulosus. Two of them, the semi-desert species Oxyonyx brisouti and Ps. exiguus, were discovered in the steppe zone of European Russia for the first time. Glocianus herbsti, previously known from the very south of the Saratov Trans-Volga Region, was discovered on the Volga Upland. The presence of Mecorhis ungarica is confirmed for the Volga Region, where the species was previously known from a single find. New data on host plants are provided for a number of species.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am very grateful to I.A. Zabaluev (Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) for making the photos of beetles, to B.A. Korotyaev (ZIN) for confirming the identification of weevil species, to my colleagues from Udmurtia A.V. Odintsov, L.P. Pyatak, and A.Yu. Kardapoltsev for their help with field research and material collection, to V.A. Nemkov (Orenburg Nature Reserve) for sharing the unpublished data on Mecorhis ungarica, and to Director of the Khvalynsky National Park V.A. Savinov and Deputy director for research G.F. Suleimanova for comprehensive assistance during research in the national park.

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Dedyukhin, S.V. New and Interesting Records of Weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) in the South of the Volga Upland. Entmol. Rev. 102, 1093–1103 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873822080061

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