East Palaearctic species of the genus Artheneis (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae)
I.M. Kerzhner
Abstract. 9 species of the genus are found in the former USSR and adjacent countries: A. balcanica Korm. (from Cimea to Tajikistan). A. kiritshenkoi sp. n. (Tien Shan, SE Kazakhstan and SW Mongolia), A. hyrcanica Kol. (Transcaucasia), A. turangae sp. n. (Middle Asia, Iraq), A. deserticola sp. n. (Middle Asia, Iran, Iraq), A. putshkovi sp. n. (Tien Shan), A. beieri Wagn. (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran), A. intricata V. Putshk. (from lower Dnieper to Mongolia), A. wagneri Ribes (Transcaucasia, Iran). A key to species is given.
Zoosystematica Rossica, 1997, 6(1/2): 213–222 ▪ Published in print 25 December 1997
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