Paleocene origin of the cockroach families Blaberidae and Corydiidae: Evidence from Amur River region of Russia

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3635 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER VRŠANSKÝ ◽  
ĽUBOMÍR VIDLIČKA ◽  
PETER BARNA ◽  
EUGENIA BUGDAEVA ◽  
VALENTINA MARKEVICH
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Amur River ◽  
River Region ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Amur River ◽  
Early Cenozoic ◽  
Amur River Region

Morphna paleo sp. n., the earliest winged representative of any living cockroach genus and the earliest representative of the family Blaberidae, is described from the Danian Arkhara-Boguchan coal mine in the Amur River region (Russian Far East). The branched Sc and A suggest Ectobiidae (=Blattellidae) probably is not the ancestral family because Blaberidae were derived directly from the extinct family Mesoblattindae. The associated Danian locality Belaya Gora yielded Ergaula stonebut sp. n., the earliest record of the family Corydiidae. Both species belong to genera codominant in the Messel locality, thus validating their dominance in early Cenozoic assemblages.

Revision of the Micronoctuidae species occurring in the Russian Far East and neighbouring countries with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1890 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
MICHAEL FIBIGER ◽  
VLADIMIR S. KONONENKO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Amur River ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Amur River ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
The Russian Far East

The family Micronoctuidae and the genus Micronoctua Fibiger, 1997 are reported from the Russian Far East and neighbouring countries for the first time. The family is represented in the region by two species in the genera Mimachrostia Sugi, 1982 and Micronoctua both occurring in Russian Far East, Korea, China and Japan. The northern distribution limit of the family Micronoctuidae is the middle of the Amur River (50°31΄N, 137°035΄E), reached by Mimachrostia fasciata Sugi, 1982. The new species, Micronoctua occi, sp. n. is described from Russian Far East, the Korean peninsula, China and the Tsushima Islands of Japan. The male and female genitalia are illustrated and compared with those of Micronoctua karsholti. Distribution maps for the two species are presented.

scholarly journals “The Question of Reinforcing Colonization of the Amur Region Ended in a Single Attempt”: From the Note of the Qualified Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture N. K. Schuman (1916)

2020 ◽  
pp. 427-438
Author(s):  
Andrei A. Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Amur Region ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Amur River ◽  
High Priority Task ◽  
River Region ◽  
The Amur River ◽  
The Government ◽  
Amur River Region

This published note of the qualified representative of the Ministry of Agriculture in the Amur region N. K. Schuman (1916) introduces into scientific use valuable information on the results of the Amur River region development in the last years of the Russian Empire and broadens our understanding of the economic policy of the government in the Far East. The author of the note describes basic economic activities in the region (gold mining, forestry, agriculture, process industry, etc.), effects of the railroad construction on the commerce; highlights unsolved problems that hinder economic growth. The note underscores the “yellow peril”; in the author’s opinion, the widespread use of Chinese workers created a number of threats: risk of being stripped of workers, if a conflict occurred with China, usurpation of industries by foreign workers, and their rapacious attitude to Russian resources. The document develops and supplements the project of planned colonization of the Amur River Region, developed by Schuman in 1914, approved by A. V. Krivoshein, and experimentally introduced in the Ulminsk district of the Amur region in 1914-1916. The author of the note concludes that reinforcement of the Russian colonization of the Amur region ended in single attempt; while this high-priority task remained unsolved it was impossible to promote economic prosperity of the region. Schuman’s proposals on state regulation of the resettlement and its transfer from Siberia to Far East (including temporary prohibition of settlement in Siberia) are also of interest. The note is stored in the Russian State Historical Archive of Far East (fond 810); its publication is preceded by an introduction, which reconstructs Schuman’s career and the circumstances in which the published document was created, thus helping to better understand its purpose and content.

New taxa in Arundinella and Calamagrostis (Poaceae) from the Russian Far East

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
N. S. Probatova
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
Chromosome Numbers ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Amur Region ◽  
Amur River Basin ◽  
Amur River ◽  
The Amur River ◽  
The Russian Far East

Calamagrostis are described from the Russian Far East. Chromosome numbers are reported for two new taxa. Calamagrostis burejensis Prob. et Barkalov, 2n = 28 (sect. Calamagrostis), C. zejensis Prob., 2n = 28 (sect. Deyeuxia), and C. × amgunensis Prob. (C. amurensis Prob. × C. neglecta (Ehrh.) G. Gaertn., B. Mey. et Scherb. s. l.) are described from the Amur River basin (Amur Region or Khabarovsk Territory); Arundinella rossica Prob. (sect. Hirtae) and Calamagrostis kozhevnikovii Prob. et Prokopenko (sect. Calamagrostis) from Primorye Territory.

scholarly journals The earliest centres of pottery origin in the Russian Far East and Siberia: review of chronology for the oldest Neolithic cultures

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
Southern China ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Amur River ◽  
Early Emergence ◽  
The Amur River ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Hunting And Fishing ◽  
Neolithic Cultures ◽  
The Russian Far East

The earliest pottery from the Russian Far East, Osipovka and Gromatukha cultural complexes, was radiocarbon-dated to c. 13 300–12 300 BP. In Siberia, the earliest pottery is known from the Ust-Karenga complex, dated to c. 11 200–10 800 BP. The Osipovka and Gromatukha complexes belong to the Initial Neolithic, and they are contemporaneous with the earliest Neolithic cultures in southern China and Japan. In spite of the very early emergence of pottery in the Russian Far East, there is no evidence of agriculture at the beginning of the Neolithic, and subsistence remains based on hunting and fishing, including anadromous salmonids in the Amur River and its tributaries.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon Chronology of the Earliest Neolithic Sites in East Asia

Radiocarbon ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (2B) ◽  
pp. 1121-1128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav V Kuzmin ◽  
Charles T Keally
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Amur River Basin ◽  
Amur River ◽  
Radiocarbon Age ◽  
Centers Of Origin ◽  
The Amur River ◽  
Radiocarbon Chronology

The radiocarbon age of the earliest pottery from Russian Far East—Gromatukha and Osipovka cultures—is between around 13,300 BP and around 10,400 BP. This shows that the Amur River basin was one of the centers of origin of pottery in East Asia, at the end of the Pleistocene. Today, there are three areas within East Asia with pottery-associated 14C dates between around 14,000 BP and 13,000 BP—southern China, the Japanese Isles, and Russian Far East.

Mark Bassin, Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, xv, 329 pp. + maps.

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-236
Author(s):  
Willard Sunderland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Amur River ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Amur River ◽  
Geographical Expansion ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
The Russian Far East

For the Russians, Siberia has always been “Other” and, as a result, it has often been imagined as something other than what it is. As Mark Bassin argues in this richly detailed book, this habit of the Russian imaginaire was on full display during the mid-1800s when hopeful Russian observers and statesmen envisioned the Russian Empire's latest territorial acquisition—the Amur river in far eastern Siberia—as a new Mississippi and the region around it as a potential second America. Ultimately, of course, these geographical analogies proved well off the mark. The region of the Amur never went on to experience the prosperity of the United States and the Amur river never even remotely rivaled the importance of the Mississippi as an artery of trade and settlement. And what is so interesting about all this is that the Russians themselves began to have their doubts about the Amur within just a few years of annexing it. Bassin's work, in fact, concentrates on explaining this strange shift. It is a study of why the Russian vision of the Amur that began so hot ended up turning so cold so quickly and what the vision itself seems to reveal about the content of Russian national identity.

New species and records of Beckidia Sæther (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Russian Far East

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1151 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
OKSA V. ZORINA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Amur River Basin ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Amur River ◽  
The Amur River ◽  
Holarctic Region ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Russian Far East

Two new species of Beckidia Sæther, B. biraensis and B. connexa, from the Amur River Basin are described and figured as males. The male of B. tethys (Townes) is redescribed and figured and the species is recorded for the first time from Russia. The generic diagnosis is emended and a key to the males of Beckidia from the Holarctic Region is given.

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