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First country records of Aulacochilus violaceus (Germar, 1824) (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) from Albania and Montenegro
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- 1. Department of Forest Protection, Institute of Forest Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159/34, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland, e-mail: jerzy_borowski@sggw.edu.pl
- 2. Department of Forest Protection, Institute of Forest Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159/34, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland, e-mail: tomasz_gazurek@sggw.edu.pl
- 3. 34-400 Nowy Targ, Poland, e-mail: klekel@interia.eu
- 4. Department of Forest Research, University of Lodz, Branch in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Konstytucji 3 Maja 65, 97-200 Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, e-mail: sebastian.tylkowski@uni.lodz.pl,
- 5. Department of Forest Protection, Institute of Forest Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159/34, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland, e-mail: adam_byk@sggw.edu.pl
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First country records of Aulacochilus violaceus (Germar, 1824) (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) from Albania and Montenegro.
The paper provides information about a rarely reported beetle of the family Erotylidae, for the first time found in Albania and Montenegro. The beetle is Aulacochilus violaceus (Germar, 1824), which was caught in three sites in northern Albania and south-eastern part of Montenegro.
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