Review of Subfamily Brachycerinae (Coleoptera: Brachyceridae) in Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Plant Protection Reasearch institute, Agriculture Research Center - El-Dokki-Giza

2 Zoology Department, Faculty of Science (Girls), Al-Azhar University

Abstract

The gathered information indicated that subfamily Brachycerinae is represented in Egypt by a single genus, Brachycerus that contains 8 species. Their diagnostic characters were introduced in this work according to previous investigators. This study was planned to identify and to determine the recent taxonomic status of  Brachycerides species for the first time in Egypt. An illustrated key was given for all Brachycerides species.

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