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A Key to and Annotated List of the Species of the Bark-Beetle Genus Scolytus Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from European Russia

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A key to and an annotated list of species of the genus Scolytus Geoffroy, 1762 from European Russia are given.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author expresses gratitude to A.A. Gusakov, curator of the coleopterous collection of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, to B.A. Korotyav (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg), to M.V.L. Barclay, curator of the coleopterous collection of the Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, and to H. Schillhammer, curator of the collection of Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria, for the opportunity to work with the collections. The author is grateful to V.V. Belov, V.G. Grachev, V.V. Zherikhin, A.A. Zaitsev, G.V. Lindeman, K.V. Makarov, A.D. Maslov, I.V. Melnik, S.Yu. Mukhanov, N.B. Nikitsky, V.V. Perov, M.O. Skomorokhov, E.A. Khachikov, M.V. Chemeris, A.V. Shamaev, and E.A. Yakushkin for the material kindly supplied for examination. The author is especially grateful to M.Yu. Mandelstam (S.M. Kirov Academy of Forestry and Timber Industry, St. Petersburg) and E.A. Yakushkin for help in the work on the paper and consultations.

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The study was supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation (grant no. 21-74-20001).

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Petrov, A.V. A Key to and Annotated List of the Species of the Bark-Beetle Genus Scolytus Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from European Russia. Entmol. Rev. 101, 1400–1415 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873821090189

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