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A preying mantis species (Mantidae) new for the fauna of Russia

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Ameles heldreichi taurica (Jakovlev, 1903), a species unknown from Russia, was found in Krasnodar Territory. The author agrees with the opinion of Kaltenbach (1963) on the subspecies rank of this taxon.

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Original Russian Text © M.V. Stolyarov, 2009, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2009, Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 116–117.

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Stolyarov, M.V. A preying mantis species (Mantidae) new for the fauna of Russia. Entmol. Rev. 89, 189–190 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809020092

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