Caddisflies of Mongolia: Distribution and diversity

Zoosymposia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-116
Author(s):  
SUVDTSETSEG CHULUUNBAT ◽  
JOHN C. MORSE ◽  
SOSORBURAM BOLDBAATAR
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Aquatic Insect ◽  
Species List ◽  
Western Mongolia ◽  
Lake Hovsgol ◽  
Insect Survey

In Mongolia, there are 198 caddisfly species belonging to 69 genera in 16 families. An updated species list also indicates the species that have been DNA barcoded. The distributions of species in the Mongolian aimags (provinces) are presented. Most species records are results from the Mongolian Aquatic Insect Survey (2002–2011, northcentral and western Mongolia) and Hovsgol_GEF projects (2002–2006, Lake Hovsgol and vicinity), and personal collections; other records are from the literature. The Mongolian caddisfly fauna is characteristic of central Asia and includes only 1 endemic species. Over half of the known Mongolian species occur in Hovsgol Aimag.

An annotated checklist of the Niphargidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of Greece

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4772 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-544
Author(s):  
ALEXANDROS NTAKIS ◽  
IOANNIS KARAOUZAS ◽  
CENE FIŠER ◽  
FABIO STOCH
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Habitat Degradation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Species List ◽  
Red Lists ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Total Species Richness ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Of Greece

Despite Greece being a global hotspot of subterranean biodiversity, its hypogean fauna is largely neglected from both an ecological and conservational point of view. An overview of the Niphargidae occurring in Greece is presented as an annotated list of all available published records. These records have resulted in an updated species list reflecting taxonomic corrections and species distribution range in the Greek peninsula. A total of 23 species, attributed to 3 genera, is up to date known from Greece with a high rate of endemicity found particularly in Crete. The endemic species of Greece amount to 21 (91% of total species richness), with the remaining species distributing also in the Republic of North Macedonia. Currently, none of them is listed in the national, European or global IUCN Red Lists of Threatened Species. Considering the increasing habitat degradation due to anthropic pressure, groundwater harvesting and climate change we could lose rare and endemic species without even acknowledging their existence. 

scholarly journals Identification of Long-Range Transport Pathways and Potential Source Regions of PM2.5 and PM10 at Akedala Station, Central Asia

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1183
Author(s):  
Hanlin Li ◽  
Qing He ◽  
Xinchun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Transport Pathways ◽  
Air Masses ◽  
Source Areas ◽  
Northern Xinjiang ◽  
Source Regions ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Western Mongolia ◽  
Pm2.5 And Pm10 ◽  
Eastern Kazakhstan

Cluster analyses, potential source contribution function (PSCF) and concentration-weight trajectory (CWT) were used to identify the main transport pathways and potential source regions with hourly PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations in different seasons from January 2017 to December 2019 at Akedala Station, located in northwest China (Central Asia). The annual mean concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10 were 11.63 ± 9.31 and 19.99 ± 14.39 µg/m3, respectively. The air pollution was most polluted in winter, and the dominant part of PM10 (between 54 to 76%) constituted PM2.5 aerosols in Akedala. Particulate pollution in Akedala can be traced back to eastern Kazakhstan, northern Xinjiang, and western Mongolia. The cluster analyses showed that the Akedala atmosphere was mainly affected by air masses transported from the northwest. The PM2.5 and PM10 mainly came with air masses from the central and eastern regions of Kazakhstan, which are characterized by highly industrialized and semi-arid desert areas. In addition, the analyses of the pressure profile of back-trajectories showed that air mass distribution were mainly distributed above 840 hPa. This indicates that PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations were strongly affected by high altitude air masses. According to the results of the PSCF and CWT methods, the main potential source areas of PM2.5 were very similar to those of PM10. In winter and autumn, the main potential source areas with high weighted PSCF values were located in the eastern regions of Kazakhstan, northern Xinjiang, and western Mongolia. These areas contributed the highest PM2.5 concentrations from 25 to 40 µg/m3 and PM10 concentrations from 30 to 60 µg/m3 in these seasons. In spring and summer, the potential source areas with the high weighted PSCF values were distributed in eastern Kazakhstan, northern Xinjiang, the border between northeast Kazakhstan, and southern Russia. These areas contributed the highest PM2.5 concentrations from 10 to 20 µg/m3 and PM10 concentrations from 20 to 60 µg/m3 in these seasons.

Notes on winter flies Trichoceridae (Diptera) of Mongolia with description of new species ANDRIUS PETRAŠIŪNAS & SIGITAS PODĖNAS (Lithuania)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3031 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRIUS PETRAŠIŪNAS ◽  
SIGITAS PODĖNAS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Aquatic Insect ◽  
North Central ◽  
Central Mongolia ◽  
The Family ◽  
Insect Survey ◽  
A New Species

The family of winter flies Trichoceridae is newly recorded for Mongolia. Four species, Trichocera (Metatrichocera) gigantea (Dahl), T. (M.) mackenziei (Dahl), T. (Saltrichocera) regelationis (Linnaeus) and T. (Trichocera) hiemalis (De Geer) are first recorded in Mongolia from sampling during 1996, 2003–2006, 2008. A new species, Trichocera (Saltrichocera) chuluuta, is described from specimens collected during the fieldwork of the Mongolian Aquatic Insect Survey Project in western and north-central Mongolia.

scholarly journals “THE FAUNA OF STONEFLIES (INSECTA: PLECOPTERA) IN UZBEKISTAN “

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4878-4882
Author(s):  
Lebedeva N.I. Et al.
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
First Time

The article highlights information on the study of the fauna of stoneflies existing in the watercourses of Uzbekistan. Substantiating original collections and data from literary sources, a revision of the fauna of stoneflies in Uzbekistan, which includes 48 species from 19 genera and 7 families, was conducted. The endemic species have been identified for Central Asia and Uzbekistan for the first time.

scholarly journals Kalmak and oirats: toponym in the religious history of the peoples of Central Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-281
Author(s):  
Baatr Uchaevich Kitinov
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Western Mongolia ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nomadic People ◽  
Historical Tradition ◽  
Political Economic

The word Kalmak is spread in a number of medieval Muslim sources. In research of the scholars this word is understood as an indicator of development or separatism (“piece”, “backward”), or religious orientation (not Muslims) for Oirats or some kind of nomadic people. To define the origin and development of its meaning, it is important to draw data from a number of important sources; for example, according to “Tarikh-i Rashidi”, Kalmak means the territory of Western and South-Western Mongolia, whose inhabitants were called, respectively, as Kalmaks, and mainly were not Muslims. In the context of the struggle of different Islam traditions during the process of Islamization of the uluses of Juchi and Chaghatay, this word began to denote all those who remained pagan or Buddhist, and since such “refuseniks” had been found in all the Genghisid uluses, the sources recorded the presence of Kalmaks almost everywhere. Besides, the historical tradition relates the Buddhist Oirats to Kalmaks, but initially Oirats had nothing common with that nation, and only with Oirats’ movement in Genghis Khan’s times to the named territories (Kalmak), this word was transferred to them, already, as an ethnonym. Oirats became Buddhists at the end of the fourteenth - beginning of the fifteenth centuries, facilitated by political, economic, ideological and other reasons. A study of the sources leads to conclusion, that the Kalmak’s first meaning was the region’s name, where peoples were known as not Muslims, and therefore this word acquired a religious context and for this reason was finally entrenched to the Oirats.

scholarly journals Structural peculiarities of the flower-bearing shoot of some Apiaceae Lindl. species

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 466-469
Author(s):  
D. T. Khamraeva
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Main Axis ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Botanical Gardens ◽  
Structural Peculiarities

The article considers the synflorescence structure of five little-studied and endemic representatives ofUmbelliferae (Apiaceae Lindl.) from Central Asia. Among the taxa studied, Komarovia anisosperma is distinguished bya special organization of the inflorescence, and which is represented by the type of storey raceme from open double umbels collected 2–6 in whorls. The remaining species are characterized by one type of inflorescence – this is a panicle ofclosed double umbels. Belonging to the same tribe Komarovieae J. Zhou et S. R. Downie, species Komarovia anisosperma and Sphaerosciadium denaense, have some similar features in the structure of the synflorescence. So, the first specieshas 5 lateral axes of the I order around the main axis assembled in whorls, while in the second species they are locatedwith a whorl under the central umbel , in addition, both species do not have involucres and involucels. The revealedfeatures of branching of the inflorescence and flower arrangement, signs of involucres and involucels, the length of therays of the umbels and pedicels, as well as the characteristic of the formation of various types of flowers in the umbeland synflorescence can be used in keys and diagnoses, and also for the conservation of rare and endemic species, forthe collection of made seeds from plants in natural conditions with further introduction to the botanical gardens or onthe protected areas.

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