scholarly journals Fauna and ecological features of ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the southeast of the Crimean Peninsula

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Zalimkhan M. Yusupov ◽  
Konstantin I. Shorenko
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Ecological Features ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

The faunistic data is presented for the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) sampled in 2019–2020 in the southeast of Crimea. In total, 28 species belonging to 16 genera and 4 subfamilies have been collected and identified. Fourteen species are new records for the Karadag Nature Reserve, and Lasius bicornis (Foerster, 1850) is recorded for the first time for the fauna of the Crimean Peninsula.

Spider diversity in the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 ((suppl.1)) ◽  
pp. 209-243
Author(s):  
J.K.H. Koh ◽  
D.J. Court
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
Secondary Forest ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Primary Forest ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Vegetation Zones ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
First Time

This paper discusses the preliminary results of the first comprehensive survey of the spiders of the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (BTNR) in Singapore. Two plots were established in each of the three zones of vegetation, viz., primary forest, old secondary forest, and maturing secondary forest. They were repeatedly sampled over an 18-month period. Sorting of the collection so far suggests that the three vegetation zones harbour rather different spider assemblages. Only ~9% of the total spider fauna recovered was shared by all three zones. The results have also yielded a preliminary picture of dominance, abundance and rarity. Although first intended to obtain a baseline for future quantitative analyses, the survey became a testing ground to modify and refine methodology so as to conduct future quantitative surveys with greater scientific rigour. Taxonomic work on the samples so far shows that the spiders in the BTNR span over 43 families, of which six families are listed for the first time in Singapore. The tally is summarised in an interim checklist of BTNR spiders. The checklist, with a total of 317 entries, shows that there are 158 described species of spiders in BTNR, of which 25 species are new records for Singapore. Another 159 morphospecies are provisionally recognised as distinct species, some of which may be new to science. Our observations during the survey have allowed us to provide a narrative of BTNR spider diversity against a backdrop of their microhabitat specialisation.

scholarly journals Linguoculturological aspect of studying Turkic toponyms of Crimea

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Emine Suleimanovna Ganieva ◽  
Zarema Seityag'yaevna Osmanova ◽  
Akhtem Seit-Ametovich Mazinov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Color Form ◽  
First Time ◽  
Crimean Tatar ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

The object of this research is the Turkic toponymic units of the Crimean Region. The subject of this research is the Crimean Tatar toponymic lexicon in the linguocultural aspect. The article examines the Turkic (Crimean Tatar) toponymic system as a fragment of the linguistic worldview of its native speakers. The need is underlined for comprehensive characteristics of geographical denominations of the Crimean Peninsula, with consideration of linguoculturological components as a full-fledged element. The goal consists in description of the Turkic toponymic units of Crimean Region as a phenomenon generated by the culture of Crimean Tatars. It is determined that the semantic of Turkic toponyms is motivated by different associations related to images of the animals and their habitat, plants, historical events and legends that defined names of the objects, etc. There also nomens with unmotivated semantics, permitting variable semantization. As a result of analysis, the examined in linguoculturological aspect toponyms of Crimea of Turkic origin are classified by most significant thematic groups. The Crimean Tatar toponymic lexicon is viewed from linguoculturological perspective for the first time, which defines the scientific novelty of the research. The following conclusions were made: geographical denominations of Crimea are the cultural artifact of Crimean Tatars, reflecting the historical stages of their settlement, ancient migrations and interethnic contacts, economic activity. Political and social transformations, geographical specificities, location, territorial traditions, including those that no longer exist.  The geographical nominations, alongside the instances of creation of toponyms based on external resemblance of geographical object with the realities surrounded Crimean Tatars (color, form), also used cultural and mental associative principles of nomination. This is why the terms included religious, somatic, legend-based, and other components.  

scholarly journals SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE SURFACE SLOPE WITHIN THE LANDSCAPES OF THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-145
Author(s):  
V. A. Tabunshchik
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Surface Slope ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Minimum Value ◽  
Maximum Value ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

The paper presents new data on the slope of the surface of the territory of the Crimean Peninsula in the context of landscape taxonomic units according to the landscape-typological map of the Crimean polostrov by G. E. Grishankov. For the first time, for the Crimean Peninsula as a whole and landscape taxonomic units – landscape levels, landscape zones, landscape belts and tiers, as well as groups of localities (okoems), elements of descriptive statistics (minimum value, maximum value, average value, median value, as well as the value of the amplitude of values (factor amplitude)) that characterize the slope of the surface within the specified territories are quantitatively calculated

A new species of Craterium (Myxomycetes, Physaraceae) growing on living grass and new records of the genus from China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 443 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
BO ZHANG ◽  
HAIXIA MA ◽  
ZHUANG LI ◽  
YU LI ◽  
XIAO LI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Scanning Electron Micrographs ◽  
Fruiting Bodies ◽  
National Nature Reserve ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Scanning Electron

A new species of Craterium (C. subpurpurea) collected in the Changbai Mountain National Nature Reserve, Jilin Province, northeastern China, is described. The fruiting bodies of C. subpurpurea are long cylindrical with distinct ridges, with large spinulose spores (8–10 μm diam.) as well as a persistent purplish pale peridium at the base of the sporotheca. A newly described species, C. aureonuleatum, has been documented in China for the first time, based on material collected from the Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, Hubei Province and the Gexigou National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province. Craterium aureonuleatum is characterized by a yellowish pseudocolumella at the apex of the sporocarp and a persistent cup-like peridium when mature. Descriptions and scanning electron micrographs for these members of the genus Craterium are provided.

Additions to the lichen flora of the Kologriv Forest Reserve and Kostroma Region

Turczaninowia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Irina N. Urbanavichene ◽  
Gennady P. Urbanavichus
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Forest Reserve ◽  
Lichenicolous Fungi ◽  
State Nature Reserve ◽  
First Time ◽  
State Nature ◽  
Lichen Flora

As a result of determining the lichens collected in summer 2020 in the territory of the Kologriv Forest State Nature Reserve (Kostroma Region), 57 species (44 lichens, 5 non-lichenized and 8 lichenicolous fungi) new to the lichen flora of the Reserve were identified. Among them, 49 species and 17 genera (Acrocordia, Allocalicium, Acarospora, Biatoridium, Catinaria, Cryptodiscus, Didymocyrtis, Fellhanera, Inoderma, Intralichen, Lichenoconium, Melaspileella, Rebentischia, Schismatomma, Sclerococcum, Thelidium, and Tremella) are new for the Kostroma Region. Micarea melanobola is new for Russia. The genus Rebentischia with species R. massalongii as well as Ramalina vogulica are published for the first time for the European Russia. Five species: Allocalicium adaequatum, Bryoria glabra, Japewia subaurifera, Sclerococcum simplex, and Tremella hypogymniae – are reported as new records for the Middle Russia. Information on habitats, substrates and distribution in the neighboring regions is provided.

scholarly journals New records of the flat-footed flies (Diptera: Platypezidae) from the Czech Republic and Bohemia

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-70
Author(s):  
Michal Tkoč
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Habitat Preference ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
Seasonal Occurrence ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
First Time

Abstract Flat-footed fly (Diptera: Platypezidae) Agathomyia cinerea (Zetterstedt, 1852) is recorded from the Czech Republic for the first time, based on specimens found in the Bukovec Nature Reserve near Jizerka (Kořenov) in the Jizerské hory Mts and Svatý Petr in the Krkonoše Mts. The distribution, seasonal occurrence and habitat preference of this species in Europe are commented. Additionally, two other flat-footed flies, Polyporivora picta (Meigen, 1830) and Seri obscuripennis (Oldenberg, 1916) are recorded for the first time from the territory of Bohemia.

scholarly journals Byzantine Imported Underglaze Monograms in Mediaeval Sougdaia

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 212-224
Author(s):  
Vadim V. Maiko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
The Third ◽  
Similar Images ◽  
First Time ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Double Cross ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

First time in the scholarship, this paper has analysed Byzantine imported monograms from mediaeval Sougdaia, which appeared on glazed vessels of the Elaborate Incised Ware produced in Constantinople or its environs. With the mediation of Genoese traders, a small number of this pottery was delivered to the markets of the cities in the Crimean peninsula, Sougdaia in particular. So far, many-year-long archaeological excavations discovered seven monograms of the kind, which belonged to three widely known Byzantine types. It should be mentioned that, as it has already been stated in the scholarship, the monograms with the name Michael predominate, though the other types are very few in number. Two typologically similar signs more, showing a double cross with diamond-shaped rays, are traditionally interpreted not as monograms but as ornamental elements typical of the war in question. Using the analysis of analogies and similar images, an attempt has been made to analyse and interpret this sign. All the finds under study originate from four archaeological contexts of mediaeval Sougdaia. Three of them possess a reliable dating to the third quarter of the fourteenth century, and the fourth specimen existed from the mid-fourteenth century to 1475.

scholarly journals New records of lichens and allied fungi from the Kostroma Region, Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Urbanavichene ◽  
Gennadii Urbanavichus
Keyword(s):  
Rare Species ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Central Federal District ◽  
Data Book ◽  
First Time

29 species of lichens, 3 non-lichenized calicioid fungi and 3 lichenicolous fungi are reported for the first time from the Kostroma Region. Among them, 15 species are new for the Central Federal District, including Myrionora albidula – a rare species with widely scattered locations, previously known only from the Southern Urals Mts in European Russia. The most important discoveries are confined to old-growth coniferous Picea sp. and Abies sibirica forests in the Kologriv Forest Nature Reserve. Two species (Leptogium burnetiae and Menegazzia terebrata) are included in the Red Data Book of Russian Federation. The distribution, ecology, taxonomic characters and conservation status of rare species and of those new for the Central Federal District are provided.

scholarly journals Detection of the Invasive Mosquito Species Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Hulecoeteomyia) koreicus on the Southern Coast of the Crimean Peninsula

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Ganushkina ◽  
Alexander Lukashev ◽  
Ivan Patraman ◽  
Vladimir Razumeyko ◽  
Еlena Shaikevich
Keyword(s):  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Mosquito Species ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Vector Borne Diseases ◽  
Invasive Mosquito Species ◽  
Invasive Mosquito ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

Background: The incidence and area of arbovirus infections is increasing around the world. It is largely linked to the spread of the main arbovirus vectors, invasive mosquito of the genus Aedes. Previously, it has been reported that Aedes aegypti reemerged in Russia after a 50-year absence. Moreover, in 2011, Ae. albopictus was registered in the city of Sochi (South Russia, Black Sea coast) for the first time. In 2013, Asian Ae. koreicus was found in Sochi for the first time. Methods: Mosquitoes were collected using the following methods: larvae with a dip net, imago on volunteers and using bait traps. The mosquitoes were identified using both morphology and sequencing of the second internal transcribed spacer of the nuclear ribosomal RNA gene cluster. Results: In August 2016, Ae. koreicus larvae and imago and a single male of Ae. aegypti were found on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula, where they were not registered before. Newly obtained DNA sequences were registered in GenBank with the accession numbers MF072936 and MF072937. Conclusion: Detection of invasive mosquito species (Ae. aegypti and Ae. koreicus) implies the possibility of their area expansion. Intensive surveillance is required at the Crimean Peninsula to evaluate the potential for the introduction of vector-borne diseases.

scholarly journals Chrysophycean stomatocysts associated with the carnivorous plants (genus Utricularia) from Jeleniak-Mikuliny Nature Reserve

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Wołowski ◽  
Jolanta Piątek ◽  
Bartosz Płachno
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
Carnivorous Plants ◽  
Peat Bog ◽  
Eukaryotic Algae ◽  
General Data ◽  
First Time

AbstractAn account is given of chrysophycean stomatocysts and algae occurring together with the carnivorous plants known as bladderworts, Utricularia intermedia, U. minor and U. australis, in the peat bog of Jeleniak-Mikuliny Nature Reserve. Eleven chrysophycean stomatocyst morphotypes were found, all reported for the first time from this nature reserve. Among them, two are new records for Europe (stomatocysts 330 and 208) and another two are new for Poland (stomatocysts 112 and 387). Descriptions are provided together with SEM illustrations. General data about cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae occurring with these stomatocysts are enumerated.

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