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Coleoptera (Insecta) collected or observed around Chelopech Village, Western Bulgaria


Borislav Guéorguiev https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8532-0657

15 December 2018 · volume 34 · [issue 1] · pp. 1–8 · PDF [full text]

Abstract: A list of 58 species of order Coleoptera registered around Chelopech Village, Sofia District, Western Bulgaria, is presented. All the species are reported for the first time from this region. Stelidota geminata (Say, 1825), representing a recent American introduction in the Palaearctic fauna, is new country record.

Keywords: Coleoptera, Bulgaria, Chelopech, new records

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Guéorguiev B. 2018 Coleoptera (Insecta) collected or observed around Chelopech Village, Western Bulgaria. Historia naturalis bulgarica 34: 1–8.

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