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Issue: Vol. 5458 No. 2: 28 May 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-05-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.2.8
Page range: 293-296
Abstract views: 81
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Additional records of lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) to the butterfly fauna of Iraq

Department of Forest Ecology; Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology; University of Mendel; Brno; Czechia; Department of Biology; College of Science; University of Sulaimani; Sulaymaniyah; Kurdistan Region; Iraq
Biology Centre CAS; Institute of Entomology; Ceske Budejovice; Czechia
Department of Forest Ecology; Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology; University of Mendel; Brno; Czechia
Department of Plant Protection; Faculty of Agriculture; University of Basara; Iraq
Lepidoptera butterfly fauna Lycaenidae Iraqi

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