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Genus Chersotis Boisduval, 1840 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Croatia with some notes on the other Balkan countries: DNA barcoding, distribution and new records

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  • 1. Association Hyla, Zagreb, Croatia, Association Hyla, Zagreb, Croatia & E-mail: koren.toni1@gmail.com
  • 2. Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 3. Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Gorice 68b, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 4. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 5. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia & E-mail: kucinic@zg.biol.pmf.hr Corresponding author

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Koren, Toni, Podnar, Martina, Vojvoda, Ana Mrnjavčić, Beshkov, Stoyan, Mihoci, Iva, Kučinić, Mladen (2021): Genus Chersotis Boisduval, 1840 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Croatia with some notes on the other Balkan countries: DNA barcoding, distribution and new records. Ecologica Montenegrina 48: 86-108, DOI: 10.37828/em.2021.48.12, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2021.48.12

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