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• Three species of aphids new to China from Beijing Botanic Garden (Hemiptera, Aphididae). Yu GuoYue; Zhou DaKang; Wang He (2018) Journal of Environmental Entomology 40 (3) 601-606.

• Ceroplastes cirripediformis Comstock: a new invasive pest in China (Hemiptera: Coccormorpha: Coccidae). Li Ge; Wang XuBo; Wu SanAn (2018) Chinese Journal of Applied Entomology 55 (3) 527-532.

• Epizootics of the entomopathogenic fungus, Entomophaga grylli (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae), in a grasshopper population in Northwest China. Zhang LiWei; Zhang PengFei; Zhang Long (2018) Biocontrol Science and Technology 28 (9) 848-857.

• First record of a specialist folivore of Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) in Togo, and indices of its range expansion in Nigeria: implications for biological control. Aigbedion-Atalor, P. O.; Idemudia, I.; Adom, M.; Day, M. (2018) Biocontrol Science and Technology 28 (8) 805-810.

• New records of Curculionidae (Coleoptera) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Rezk, M. H. (2018) Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3) 625-628.

• The Cryptocephalinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Krasnoyarsk Krai (except for the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky district), Siberia, Russia. Guskova, E. V.; Akulov, E. N.; Loshchev, S. M. (2018) Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3) 565-576.

• A new species of the seed beetle genus Megacerus Fǻhraeus, 1839 (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) and redescription of Megacerus centralis (Pic), with a key to the Mexican species and new host and distribution records. Nápoles, J. R. (2018) Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3) 531-540.

• First record of Trochoideus desjardinsi Guérin-Méneville, 1838 (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Pleganophorinae) from Cuba. Shockley, F. W.; Kovalenko, Y. N. (2018) Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3) 500-502.

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