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The large carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Turkey: a review with a new species record

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Çiftçi, Derya, Růžička, Jan, Hasbenli, Abdullah, Şahin, Ülfet (2018): The large carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Turkey: a review with a new species record. Zootaxa 4441 (3): 555-591, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.10

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