scholarly journals On the centipede genus Schizotergitius Verhoeff, 1930, with a redescription of Schizotergitius altajicus Loksa, 1978 and a key to the genera of the family Lithobiidae in Central Asia (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha)

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-371
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Dyachkov ◽  
G. Sh. Farzalieva ◽  
L. Dányi
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
The Family

New perspectives on Nephridiacanthus major (Acanthocephala: Oligacanthorhynchidae) collected from hedgehogs in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.M. Amin ◽  
M. Sharifdini ◽  
R.A. Heckmann ◽  
M. Zarean
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Molecular Profile ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scanning Electron

We describe morphological features not previously reported for this old acanthocephalan Nephridiacanthus major (Bremser, 1811 in Westrumb, 1821) Golvan, 1962 first described over 200 years ago. Our specimens were collected from long-eared hedgehog Hemiechinus auritus (Gmelin, 1770) (Erinaceidae) in Iran. We compare the morphometrics of our material with others previously reported from the same host in Iran, Russia, central Asia and Europe. Our specimens had markedly smaller proboscides, proboscis hooks and lemnisci than those reported from Russia and central Asia, but comparable measurements of other structures with specimens previously described from other collections. We document our new observations with scanning electron microscopy features not previously demonstrable by other observers and provide a chemical analysis of proboscis hooks using energy-dispersive X-ray analysis for the first time. The molecular profile of this acanthocephalan, based on 18S rDNA and cox1 genes, was generated for the first time. The phylogenetic analysis showed that N. major is placed in a clade of the family Oligacanthorhynchidae, well separated from the families Moniliformidae and Gigantorhynchidae.

scholarly journals The genus Pelophylax (Amphibia, Ranidae) in Pakistan: museum collections and possible distribution

Herpetozoa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 141-147
Author(s):  
Daniel Jablonski ◽  
Addison Wynn ◽  
Rafaqat Masroor ◽  
Theodore Papenfuss ◽  
Spartak N. Litvinchuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Kabul River

We provide the first comprehensive data on the questionable distribution of the genus Pelophylax and the family Ranidae from Pakistan. Based on a literature review and two specimens of the genus from Tasp, Panjgur District in Pakistani Balochistan (USNM 26194–95), stored in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA, we discuss the possible occurrence and affiliation of these frogs in the context of Central Asia. Our comparison shows that the nearest records of Pelophylax in relation to the Tasp specimens are reported from more than 280 km (air-line) away in Iran and Afghanistan, which are currently separated by hot and mostly desert environments. We suggest that possible surviving populations of this genus may still be present in Balochistan (Rakhshan River) or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Kabul River) Provinces of Pakistan. This would, however, need further field investigations.

scholarly journals DIVERSITY OF INSECTS AND OTHER ARTHROPODS IN MONGOLIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Badamdorj ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Far East Of Russia ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Family ◽  
Darkling Beetles ◽  
The Russian Far East

The insect fauna of Mongolia includes about 12,000 species belonging to 24 orders. The only order, Orthoptera, is richer in species in Mongolia than in the Far East of Russia. All other units show greater diversity in the Russian Far East than in Mongolia. There are a significant number of very interesting endemics. Tizanuras of the family Machilidae are relic insects, represented by five species in Mongolia. As examples of widespread Central Asian insects, a number of species of darkling beetles and weevils can be indicated, most of which are endemic to Mongolia or Central Asia.

scholarly journals First record of Lycoperdina succincta (Linnaeus, 1767) (Coleoptera, Endomychidae) from Kazakhstan 

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 441-450
Author(s):  
Izbasar I. Temreshev
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
New Record ◽  
First Record ◽  
Coprinus Comatus ◽  
The Family ◽  
East Kazakhstan ◽  
Tricholoma Terreum

Handsome fungus beetle Lycoperdina succincta (Linnaeus, 1767) from the family Endomychidae is the first recorded from Kazakhstan (North Kazakhstan, Akmola, and North Kazakhstan regions and South-East Kazakhstan, Almaty region). The finds of L. succincta from the Almaty region of Kazakhstan are currently the southernmost localities for this species and a new record for Central Asia. Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müller) Persoon, 1797, Tulostoma volvulatum I.G. Borshchov, 1865, Bovistella utriformis (Bulliard) Demoulin & Rebriev, 2017 and Tricholoma terreum (Schaeffer) P. Kummer, 1871 for L. succincta were recorded from Lazakhstan also. A key to  determining the  known genera and species of Endomychidae from Kazakhstan is given.

Three new remarkable amphipod species (Crustacea: Gammaridae) from springs and subterranean waters of Central Asia

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4444 (4) ◽  
pp. 437 ◽  
Author(s):  
DMITRY SIDOROV ◽  
ZHONGE HOU ◽  
BORIS SKET
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Dna Barcode ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Amphipod Species ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Subterranean Waters

Three new species of the family Gammaridae—Gammarus troglomorphus, sp. n., G. parvioculatus, sp. n. from Lebap Province of Turkmenistan and Tadzocrangonyx alaicus, sp. n. from Batken Region of Kyrgyzstan are described and illustrated. Morphological studies of a closely related Turkmenistan population of G. cf. subaequalis-Garlyk, probably conspecific with Gammarus subaequalis Martynov, 1935 was provided. The affinity of new species to concerned taxa is discussed. To define phylogenetic position of mentioned species DNA barcode data are obtained. Gammarus troglomorphus and G. parvioculatus are close neighbors but exceedingly different morphologically. Gammarus troglomorphus is a troglobiont; G. parvioculatus is an eutroglophile, but with exception of slightly smaller eyes, not troglomorph. Both found only within small areas in the extreme East of Turkmenistan. Gammarus cf. subaequalis-Garlyk seems to extend from the same region far into the eastern Kyrgyzstan. 

The Family and Professional Circle of Two Samarkand Calligraphers of Persian Belles-Lettres Around the Year 1600 (ca. 1010 AH)

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-349
Author(s):  
Maria Szuppe
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Book Production ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Contexts ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Reference Figure

Abstract The analysis of several extant manuscripts of the Šāhnāma epics and other Persian literary texts produced by two calligraphers, Ādīna Kātib Buḫārī (fl. 1595-1605) and Mīr Māh b. Mīr ʿArab (fl. 1592-1613), seemingly in the same atelier in Samarkand, opens up an interesting field of investigation. The latter copyist was a close relation of a renowned court calligrapher and Chief Librarian of the Shaybanid rulers of Bukhara, Mīr Ḥusayn “Kulangī” (fl. ca. 1535-85) who himself also specialized in the copy of Persian classical literature; more then 30 manuscripts by his hand are extant today. This article presents the available information on professional biographies of these calligraphers (introducing some hithertho unknown manuscripts), but also it touches upon the issues of the actual organization and practices of skill transmission and book production, some aspects of professional specialization, and the importance of transmission reference figure in professional and family contexts of the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Central Asia.

Fashion Fusion in Kazakhstan

2017 ◽  
pp. 363-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Buie Erdener
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
High Technology ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bright Future ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Ideas

Fashion and technology have been deeply connected in Central Asia since the dawn of time. Every piece of clothing was the result of applying technology to materials found in nature, based on an idea that originated in someone's mind. Clothing held a mystical purpose as well as a utilitarian one, protecting the owner from all kinds of danger. What people wore signified who they were as individuals situated in the family and the cosmos. Changes in fashion went hand-in-hand with technological change as the inspiration for and outcome of new ideas. This is why one can predict with confidence that forms of high technology now emerging will be assimilated quickly by the local fashion industry. This signals a bright future for high tech fashion in Kazakhstan, where significant changes are already well underway. As the emerging fashion industry advances on its current trajectory of development, it will continue to express the beliefs, expectations, hopes and dreams of the people of Kazakhstan in a synthesis of elements from the past, present and future.

New data on morphology and distribution of Alona werestschagini Sinev, 1999—the only Arcto-Alpine species of Chydoridae (Cladocera: Anomopoda) known to date

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5071 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-252
Author(s):  
ARTEM Y. SINEV ◽  
PETR G. GARIBIAN ◽  
NADEZHDA А. KIROVA ◽  
ALISA A. NEPLYUKHINA
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Alpine Species ◽  
Arctic Coast

Detailed study of morphology of Alona werestschagini Sinev, 1999 (Crustacea: Cladocera) confirms its affinities with Alona guttata Sars, 1862. A. werestschagini is the only Arcto-Alpine species among the family Chydoridae, distributed along Arctic coast of Eurasia and in mountains of Central Asia, newer recorded in temperate lowlands of the continent. In our opinion, the species evolved in mountainous regions of Central Asia, while its spreading to Arctic regions took place in Pleistocene.  

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