On the Cryptobiina of the Arabian peninsula (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1892 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
VOLKER ASSING
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
The South ◽  
Western Palaearctic

The species of the paederine subtribe Cryptobiina from Oman and Yemen are examined. The following taxa are (re-) described and illustrated: Cryptomanum gen. n., C. omanicum (Coiffait, 1981), comb. n., C. spinosissimum sp. n. (Oman), and Afrobium arabicum sp. n. (Yemen, Iran). Keys to the genera of Cryptobiina present in the Western Palaearctic region and to the Cryptobiina species recorded from the south of the Arabian peninsula are provided.

Taxonomic revision of the Western Palaearctic bees of the subgenus Pseudomegachile (Hymenoptera, Apiformes, Megachilidae, Megachile)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4524 (3) ◽  
pp. 251 ◽  
Author(s):  
ACHIK DORCHIN ◽  
CHRISTOPHE J. PRAZ
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Phylogenetic Hypothesis ◽  
Large Genus ◽  
Western Palaearctic

The subgenus Pseudomegachile Friese of the large genus Megachile Latreille is revised for the Western Palaearctic region, Iran, and the Arabian Peninsula. Twenty species are recognized, of which five are new: Megachile blepharis Dorchin & Praz from Israel, M. plumigera Dorchin & Praz from Oman and the United Arab Emirates, M. syriaca Dorchin & Praz from Syria and Turkey, M. yezidica Dorchin & Praz from Turkey and Iran, and M. maxschwarzi Dorchin & Praz from Iran and Central Asia. The following new synonymies are proposed: M. inermis Radoszkowski 1893 (as well as the replacement name M. mitis Cockerell 1899), M. albifasciata Rebmann 1970 and M. transgrediens Rebmann 1970 are placed in synonymy with M. saussurei Radoszkowski 1874; M. tuberculata Radoszkowski 1893 (as well as the replacement name M. tuberculosa Dalla Torre 1896) is placed in synonymy with M. seraxensis Radoszkowski 1893; M. rubripes Morawitz 1875 and M. persica Rebmann 1972 are placed in synonymy with M. flavipes Spinola 1838; M. stolzmanni Radoszkowski 1893 and M. flavidula Rebmann 1970 are placed in synonymy with M. tecta Radoszkowski 1888. Lectotypes are designated for M. cinnamomea Alfken 1926, M. nilotica Pérez 1897, M. inermis, M. seraxensis, M. tuberculata, M. farinosa Smith 1853, M. derasa Gerstäcker 1869, M. erythrocnemis Alfken 1930 and M. xanthocnemis Alfken 1938. An identification key is provided, a phylogenetic hypothesis including most species in the subgenus is presented, and the biology of the species is briefly summarized. 

The extensive Palaearctic distribution of Melitaea ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), exemplified by recent records

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-267
Author(s):  
Peter Russell
Keyword(s):  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Western Palaearctic

Recent reports of Melitaea ornata Christoph, 1893 from countries within the Western Palaearctic region, for example from Spain, Bosnia Herzegovina and Asia, have considerably widened the previously accepted distribution of this species. Details of localities in more than twenty-five countries, with references, are given. Those countries in which the presence of M. ornata has been reported but without any substantial evidence are noted.

scholarly journals Additions to the revision of the genus Atractodes (Hymenoptera, lchneumonidae) of the western Palaearctic Region. II.

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reijo Jussila
Keyword(s):  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
Nomina Dubia ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
Region Ii

The nomenclature of the following species has been clarified and corrected: Atractodes mediatus Förster has been corrected to a junior synonym of A. albovinctus Haliday, Atractodes brevicornis Bauer of A. gravidus Gravenhorst, Atractodes vestalis Haliday and A. discoloripes Förster of Stilpnus tenebricosus (Gravenhorst), Atractodes försteri Dalla Torre of A. obsoletor (Zetterstedt), Atractodes incessor Haliday of Mesoleptus laevigatus (Gravenhorst), Atractodes neophytus Förster of A. obsoletor (Zetterstedt), Atractodes pygmaeator Zetterstedt of A. bicolor Gravenhorst, Atractodes quanjeri Smits van Burgst of A. alutaceus Thomson, Atractodes sarntheinii Dalla Torre of A. vicinus Förster and Atractodes varicornis Holmgren of Oxytorus luridator (Gravenhorst). Atractodes rufipes Thomson, A. rufipes Förster and A. thomsoni Jussila are junior primary homonyms, and A. cultrarius Forster, A. designatus Forster, A. intersectus Förster, A. rufipes Förster and A. rufipes Thomson are junior secondary homonyms. Atractodes intersectus Boyer de Fonscolombe, A. mesozonius (Gravenhorst), A. quadrispinus Ratzeburg, A. riparius Ruschka, A. spiniger Snellen van Vollenhoven and A. teneriventris (Gravenhorst, 1829) are regarded as nomina dubia. Atractodes nigripennis Hellen has been added to the fauna of the western Palaearctic Region.

scholarly journals Psychiatry in the Sultanate of Oman

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed Al-Sinawi ◽  
Samir Al-Adawi
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
The South ◽  
Dominant Language ◽  
Linguistic Groups

The Sultanate of Oman is located in the south-east of the Arabian Peninsula. It has a distinctive history and subcultures. Its seafaring tradition has endowed the country with various ethnic and linguistic groups, with Arabic being a dominant language and Ibadhi being the dominant sect of Islam (Al-Nami, 1971). Oman in the 1970s saw rapid development, triggered by the discovery of oil, which took place under enlightened new political leadership.

On some species of the genus Acrolocha Thomson, 1858 of the Western Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Omaliini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4576 (2) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN ◽  
EDUARD A. KHACHIKOV
Keyword(s):  
European Part ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Part Of Russia ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
First Time

New taxonomic, morphological and faunistic data for three Western Palaearctic species of the genus Acrolocha Thomson, 1858 are provided. Acrolocha caucasica Tóth, 1976 is redescribed and illustrated. The lectotype for A. pliginskii Bernhauer, 1912 is designated. Acrolocha amabilis (Heer, 1841) is recorded from Central European part of Russia and Georgia for the first time. 

Annotated catalogue of beetles (Coleoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4715 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIŘÍ HÁJEK ◽  
JAN BEZDĚK
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Species Level ◽  
East African ◽  
African Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
Tropical Areas ◽  
Annotated Catalogue ◽  
Socotra Archipelago ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
First Time

Beetles of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen, were catalogued. Altogether, 645 morphospecies from 56 families have been recognised from the Archipelago, of which 516 species (one with an additional two subspecies) were identified to the species level. Twenty-four, mostly widely distributed, species are recorded from the Socotra Archipelago for the first time, and three species are newly recorded for the islands Abd el Kuri (1) and Samha (2). Lithocharis socotrana Assing, 2015 (Staphylinidae), described from Socotra, is recorded from continental Yemen for the first time. Five incomplete or incorrect previous records are corrected. A total of 305 (47%) of all recorded species are considered to be endemic to the Socotra Archipelago. A total of 62 (10%) species are widely distributed Afrotropical species, and 35 (5.5%) East African species, often reaching also the Arabian Peninsula; 16 (2.5%) species occur in the eremial zone of Saharo-Arabian (or Saharo-Sindian) region. Only 14 (2%) species were previously known solely from the Arabian Peninsula; 30 (4.5%) species have cosmopolitan (and often anthropogenic) distributions; 28 (4.5%) species are widely distributed in (sub)tropical areas of the Old World; and 26 (4%) species have a predominantly western Palaearctic distribution. At present, 129 (20%) morphospecies remain unidentified; however, we expect that many of them represent as yet undescribed taxa endemic to the Archipelago. 

Distribution of the European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) at the edge of the South-Western Palaearctic: transboundary differences and conservation prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Tellería ◽  
Roberto Carbonell ◽  
Guillermo Fandos ◽  
Elena Tena ◽  
Alejandro Onrubia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Turtle Dove ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
Streptopelia Turtur

A new fossil species of Bolitophagini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Baltic amber suggests the genus Eledonoprius Reitter is persistent in the Western Palaearctic since the Tertiary

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4750 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-424
Author(s):  
VITALII I. ALEKSEEV ◽  
ANDRIS BUKEJS ◽  
ELŻBIETA SONTAG
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae

The first fossil representative of Eledonoprius Reitter, E. incoronatus sp. nov., is described from Eocene Baltic amber. The genus is associated with old-growth forests in the modern Western Palaearctic Region and apparently has persistent in this Region since the Paleogene. 

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