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Acrocephalus orinus : A Case of Mistaken Identity 1 1 2 2 3 Evgeny A. Koblik , Yaroslav A. Red’kin , Margarita S. Meer , Romain Derelle , Sofia A. Golenkina , 2 4 Fyodor A. Kondrashov , Vladimir Yu. Arkhipov * 1 Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 2 Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain, 3 Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia, 4 Institute of Theoretical Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia Abstract Recent discovery of the Large-billed Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus orinus) in museums and in the wild significantly expanded our knowledge of its morphological traits and genetic variability, and revealed new data on geographical distribution of the breeding grounds, migration routes and wintering locations of this species. It is now certain that A. orinus is breeding in Central Asia; however, the precise area of distribution remains unclear. The difficulty in the further study of this species lies in the small number of known specimens, with only 13 currently available in museums, and in the relative uncertainty of the breeding area and habitat of this species. Following morphological and genetic analyses from Svensson, et al, we describe 14 new A. orinus specimens from collections of Zoological Museums of the former USSR from the territory of Central Asian states. All of these specimens were erroneously labeled as Blyth’s Reed Warbler (A. dumetorum), which is thought to be a breeding species in these areas. The 14 new A. orinus specimens were