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Detection of an invasive species Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon, 1855 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Arionidae) in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Evgeniy V. Schikov 1
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Yuriy E. Komarov 2
 
 
 
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Tver State University, Biological Faculty / Kalinina, Russia
 
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North Ossetian State Nature Reserve / Chabakhan Basieva, Russia
 
 
Submission date: 2021-02-02
 
 
Final revision date: 2021-07-25
 
 
Acceptance date: 2021-10-31
 
 
Online publication date: 2021-12-06
 
 
Publication date: 2021-12-06
 
 
Corresponding author
Evgeniy V. Schikov   

Tver State University, Biological Faculty / Kalinina, 37-21, Lyubertsy, Moscow Region, 140002, Russia
 
 
Folia Malacol. 2021;29(4):222-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.029.026
 
 
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KEYWORDS
Arion vulgaris
Arionidae
adventitious species
plant pests
Caucasus fauna
 
ABSTRACT
Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon is a serious agricultural pest. Its rapid spread started in the middle of the twentieth century. Currently, its range covers almost all of Western Europe and it is rapidly expanding to the east. A. vulgaris has been recorded in the Baltics, Ukraine, and central Russia; it is also found in the Faroe Islands. In 2009, it was discovered in Russia in the commercial greenhouses of Tver. Now it has spread in the suburbs and Moscow. On the 6th of August 2019, a population of this species was found in the arboretum of Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia which is the first record of A. vulgaris in the Caucasus. Description of the slug’s genitalia is given.
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