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New data on the leaf beetles of the subfamily Cryptocepalinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Middle Asia and Afghanistan

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A new leaf-beetle species, Acolastus paki sp. n., is described from Tajikistan. New data (including photographs of the aedeagus and habitus) on Acolastus afghanicus, A. anthracinus, A. karatavicus, A. lygaeus, A. nanus, A. nigrifrons, A. syrdariensis, and Tituboea elegantissima are reported.

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Original Russian Text © P.V. Romantsov, 2017, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2017, Vol. 96, No. 2, pp. 350-355.

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Romantsov, P.V. New data on the leaf beetles of the subfamily Cryptocepalinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Middle Asia and Afghanistan. Entmol. Rev. 97, 502–509 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873817040121

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