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Based on the material collected by the authors in Central and West Georgia, the Caucasus, in 2014–2017, Carabus (Archiplectes) zubovisp. n. from Kvemo Svaneti, belonging to the komarowi species-group, and Carabus (Tribax) shtavlerensissp. n. from Zemo Svaneti, belonging to the agnathus species-group, are described. The distribution of the new species is mapped.
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Continuation of the series “On New Carabids of the Genus Carabus Linné (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the Caucasus,” 8th contribution. For the preceding contribution see Entomological Review 96 (9), 1261–1267 (2016).
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Fominykh, D.D., Zamotajlov, A.S. & Titarenko, A.Y. Two New Species of the Genus Carabus Linnaeus, 1758 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the South Caucasus. Entmol. Rev. 98, 629–643 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873817050068
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