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Stridulation has been observed for the first time in a representative of the subfamily Eumolpinae, Bromius obscurus Linnaeus. A stridulatory apparatus was found in all Eumolpinae examined by the authors. It differs essentially from all the previously described types of stridulatory apparata and is located on the upper side of each wing in the form of a dark convex spot with complicated microsculpture between RS and Cu veins, as well as an apical corn-like convexity on the underside of each elytron near the suture.
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Original Russian Text © L.N. Medvedev, O.S. Muravitzky, 2009, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2009, Vol. 88, No. 4, pp. 739–744.
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Medvedev, L.N., Muravitzky, O.S. On the presence of a stridulatory apparatus in leaf beetles of the subfamily Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Entmol. Rev. 89, 1030–1034 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809090036
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