A new species of soldier beetles of the genus Podistra Motschulsky, 1839 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from the Northern Caucasus, with notes on distribution of the genus [PDF]
A new species of soldier beetles of the genus Podistra Motschulsky, 1839, P. (s. str.) makarovae sp. n., is described from the vicinity of Mount Elbrus, in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia.
S.V. Kazantsev
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Four new species and new records of Thinophilus Wahlberg, 1844 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Iranian mangroves with a key to the species known from Iran [PDF]
Four new long-legged fly species, Thinophilus albihirtus sp. n., Thinophilus albisetosus sp. n., Thinophilus nigrihirtus sp. n., and Thinophilus qeshmensis sp.
I.Ya. Grichanov, E. Gilasian
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Kriechbaumerella Dalla Torre, 1897 (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae), a rarely found chalcid genus in Iran [PDF]
Kriechbaumerella Dalla Torre, 1897 is a relatively small genus of the family Chalcididae and it is rarely collected in Iran. The current paper presents new data on the occurrence and distribution of the Kriechbaumerella species in Iran, representing ...
Negar Fakhrzadeh +2 more
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Critical remarks on “Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 6/1. Chrysomeloidea I (Vesperidae, Disteniidae, Cerambycidae). Updated and revised second edition”, Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2020, with corrections and additions [PDF]
The second, updated edition of the Catalogue of Palaearctic cerambycids is discussed in detail. The unprecedented huge amount of gross mistakes, highly dubious and controversial data held in the first edition of the Catalogue was one of the main reasons ...
A.I. Miroshnikov
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A new species of Neurigona Rondani, 1856 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with a key to species from Iran and adjacent countries [PDF]
A new long-legged fly species, Neurigona parchamii sp. n., from the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan is described and illustrated. The new species appears to be closely related to N. euchroma Negrobov, 1987 known from Uzbekistan, differing from
I.Ya. Grichanov, E. Gilasian
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Phylogeographic characterization of scorpions of the genus Mesobuthus Vachon, 1950 [PDF]
The study of zoogeographic characteristics in combination with the use of modern methods for assessing phylogenetic relationships allowed us to examine in detail the phylogeographic structure in scorpions of the genus Mesobuthus.
Poverenniy, Nikita M. +1 more
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Aim. The aim is to conduct a comparative analysis of the composition of the terrestrial fauna of the Tethys desert-steppe region of the Palearctic.Materials and methods.
G. M. Abdurakhmanov +9 more
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Redescription of the little-known psyllid Cacopsylla dissimilis (Baeva, 1963) comb. nov. (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) from Iran [PDF]
During a faunistic survey of the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) in the Iranian province of Kerman in spring 2015, Cacopsylla dissimilis (Baeva) comb. nov. was collected on Salix pycnostachya.
M. R. Lashkari +2 more
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An annotated list of 12 species of geometrid moths of the subfamily Larentiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) found for the first time on the territory of Amurskaya Oblast, the Russian Far East, is given.
Aleksandr A. Kuzmin, Evgeniy A. Beljaev
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Orthopteran communities in the conifer-broadleaved woodland zone of the Russian Far East
We investigate orthopteran communities in the natural landscape of the Russian Far East and compare the habitat requirements of the species with those of the same or closely related species found in the largely agricultural landscape of central Europe ...
Thomas FARTMANN +2 more
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