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Fauna of Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Langkawi Island, Malaysia

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The list of the caddisfly species found in the Langkawi Island has 68 species from 31 genus and 15 families, 24 of which are new to the fauna of Malaysia. A new species from the family Ecnomidae, Ecnomus jubilaearissp. n. is described.

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The study is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 18-04-00312), grants of St. Petersburg State University 1.42.1017.2016 (Id: 28887890), 1.42.1011.2016 (Id 28891051), 1.42.721.2017 (Id: 33161520), 1.42.722.2017 (Id: 33161571), CONF 2018 1 (Id: 27870985).

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2019, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 428–440.

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Melnitsky, S.I., Ivanov, V.D. & Malicky, H. Fauna of Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Langkawi Island, Malaysia. Entmol. Rev. 99, 534–543 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819040158

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