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A new Palaearctic genus, Neopsilocurusgen. n., is erected for Psilocurus negrus Lehr, 1974 (type species) and Ps. hypopygialis (Paramonov, 1930). A detailed comparative characteristic of the two Neopsilocurus species is given with descriptions of their external structures and photographs of the male genitalia. A key to species of the new genus is compiled based on the original and literature data.
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Original Russian Text © D.M. Astakhov, 2018, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2018, Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 170–174.
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Astakhov, D.M. A New Genus of the Robber Fly Subfamily Laphriinae (Diptera, Asilidae) from the Middle East. Entmol. Rev. 98, 218–227 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873818020136
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