scholarly journals Establishment of the North American Eastern Eyed Click Beetle Alaus oculatus L. (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in the Caucasus

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
S.V. Pushkin ◽  
E. G. Mishvelov

In 2009 we for the first time found a look in a neighborhood of the city of Geledzhik. Still this look wasn't specified for t he territory of Russia, but also Palearktiki as a whole. In 2013 this look was noted repeatedly. I t testifies about not accidents of detection. The species is resulted for the first time for Russia and will be included in base Zoological institute the Russian Academy of Sciences (www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/eng/atl_elat.htm) 

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-63
Author(s):  
A.V. Khalin ◽  
S.V. Aibulatov

The northernmost records of all 47 mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) recorded from northwestern Russia, are reviewed and mapped for the first time, based on the recently collected original material, the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the available published data. All records of Aedes rossicus Dolbeskin, Gorickaja et Mitrofanova, 1930, Ae. caspius (Pallas, 1771) and Ae. detritus Haliday, 1833 in northwestern Russia are considered as doubtful.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 00005
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Belanova ◽  
Ludmila Chindyaeva

Naturalization of the North American species Prunus pensylvanica has been revealed in Novosibirsk for the first time. This species was introduced in the city in the middle of the last century. It naturally regenerates vegetatively in the area of landscape objects and in dedrological collections and gives self-seeding. In local conditions it is characterized by fast growth, short pregenerative period, presence of abundant uneven-aged progeny, high vegetative mobility, and local population-forming ability.


2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79
Author(s):  
Cristóbal Ivanovich ◽  
Christian Dolnik ◽  
Volker Otte ◽  
Zdeněk Palice ◽  
Mohammad Sohrabi ◽  
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AbstractLecanora s. lat. is a genus of crustose, rarely placodioid lichens comprising c. 1000 recognized species and subdivided into several morphology-based groups. Some of these groups have been supported in phylogenetic analyses and segregated as new genera. One of the remaining groups that has not been previously studied by molecular methods in much detail, the L. saligna-group, includes corticolous and lignicolous crustose lichens, usually containing isousnic or usnic acid (or both) as major secondary metabolites. As part of our ongoing project ‘Lecanomics’, a phylogenetic analysis based on two loci was conducted and found the L. saligna-group to be divided into two main clades and several well-supported minor clades. The L. varia clade, chosen as one of the outgroups, emerged within the L. saligna-group. The majority of the clades are characterized by phenotypic differences. However, several well-supported clades share similarities with their sister groups, suggesting that species circumscriptions based solely on phenotypic characters may be too conservative to characterize the true species diversity present within the group. Also, there is evidence for some geographical separation of lineages; for example, most North American individuals, previously known as Lecanora saligna and L. albellula, form two clades separate from their European namesakes and are here preliminarily called ‘Lecanora sp. B’, ‘Lecanora sp. C’ and ‘Lecanora sp. D’. However, L. saligna and L. albellula also appear to occur in North America, and some specimens from the Caucasus and Iran cluster within the North American clades. Lecanora anopta and L. subravida are reported for the first time from Iran.


Author(s):  
Л.Д. БОНДАРЬ ◽  
З.А. ДЖИОЕВА

Настоящая работа представляет собой публикацию архивных материалов кавказоведа Е.Г. Пчелиной, хранящихся в Санкт-Петербургском филиале Архива РАН, касающихся вопроса названия и самоназвания кавказских народов. Авторы ставят перед собой задачи: 1) полнотекстовой публикации отдельных документов, 2) реконструкцию круга научных работ по указанной теме, изученных Пчелиной, 3) систематизированную презентацию научного материала по теме, представлявшего интерес для исследовательницы, 4) отражение критических взглядов исследовательницы на отдельные аспекты темы, нашедшие выражение в комментариях к библиографическим выпискам. Эти задачи облегчены авторской систематизацией материала, бережно сохраненной архивистами, осуществлявшими научно-техническую обработку фонда. Это вселяет уверенность в максимально аутентичной реконструкции взглядов Пчелиной на обозначенную проблему. Изучение вопроса исследовательница проводила, главным образом, на основе научной литературы, изданной до конца 1940-х гг.; похоже, что после 1955 г. она не занималась этим вопросом. Нельзя исключать, что часть сведений она могла получить в «полевых условиях», во время своих этнографических исследований на Северном Кавказе. Очевидно, что Пчелина, не позиционировавшая себя как лингвист, не ставила перед собой задачи научных открытий по этой теме; ей было важно самой разобраться в вопросе кавказской этнонимики как базовом для ее собственных этнографических и археологических исследований. Но сделать это было не просто: среди опубликованных к тому времени трудов по этой теме большинство касались эпохи античности и средневековья. This article is a publication of archival materials of E.G. Pchelina; this material is stored in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and concerns the issue of the names and self-designation of the Caucasian peoples. The authors set goals for themselves: 1) full-text publication of some documents, 2) reconstruction of the list of scientific works on this topic, studied by Pchelina, 3) a systematic presentation of scientific material on the topic that was of interest to the researcher, 4) a reflection of the researcher's critical views on certain aspects of the topic, which were expressed in the comments to the bibliographic extracts. These tasks are facilitated by the author's systematization of the material; this systematization was carefully preserved by archivists who carried out scientific-technical processing of the fond. This gives confidence in the most authentic reconstruction of the views of Pchelina on the designated problem. The researcher conducted her studying mainly on the basis of scientific literature published before the end of the 1940s; it seems that she did not deal with this issue after 1955. It is possible that she could have obtained some of the information in the "field", during her ethnographic research in the North Caucasus. It is obvious that Pchelina, who did not position herself as a linguist, did not set herself the task of scientific discoveries on this topic; it was important for her to understand the issue of Caucasian ethnonymy as a basic one for her own ethnographic and archaeological researches. But it was not easy to do this: the most of the published at that time works concerned the ancient and medieval periods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
E. V. Arutiunova ◽  
E. V. Beshenkova ◽  
O. E. Ivanova

The study investigates the rule of spelling the root -ravn-/-rovn- and is considered to be a fragment of the academic description of Russian spelling, which is currently being under investigation at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The authors clarify the meanings that determine the spelling of the unstressed root, supplement the lists of exceptions, denote words with meanings not corresponding to the given values-criteria, and, for the first time in linguistics, investigate the words that can be correlated with different values-criteria, that is, they have double motivation. The rule codifies the spelling of words that have double motivation and fluctuate in usus, dictionaries, study guides and reference books. Spelling recommendations for these words correspond to the current linguistic norm and were approved by the Spelling Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2019. The linguistic commentary to the rule contains the most significant etymological facts concerning the root -ravn-/-rovn- and summarises the scientific and methodological attempts to figure out the distribution of vocabulary with root -ravn-/-rovn- based on the meanings selected in the spelling rules. In the paper it is shown that the instability in spelling of various verbs with the root -ravn-/-rovn- in modern writing and dictionaries is determined by the double motivation of words, as well as contradictory recommendations and gaps in the rules.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-204
Author(s):  
S.Yu. Gagaev

During the expedition of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZIN RAS) in 1998, a fossil impression of a polychaete worm belonging to the family Nephtyidae Grube, 1850, containing fragments of jaws, was found in the west of Sakhalin. The find is dated to the Middle and Upper Miocene. There are no published records of any finds of fossil nephtyids in the area. Based on the analysis of the jaw shape, it is concluded that the nephtyid impression may belong to the genus Nephtys Cuvier 1817 or the genus Aglaophamus Kinberg, 1865.


1979 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Andrew Boyle

The association of Alexander the Great with the Mongols begins with the identification of the latter with the peoples of Gog and Magog. The evolution of this legend, which has its origin in the Book of Genesis, is curious in the extreme. In Genesis Magog is mentioned as one of the sons of Japhet, his name occurring between those of Gomer and Madai. Since Madai is clearly intended as the eponym of the Medes and Gomer has been located in Cappadocia and Phrygia it has been plausibly suggested that Magog at this stage corresponded to the territory in between, i.e. the region immediately south of the Caucasus in Eastern and Northern Armenia. In Ezekiel we hear for the first time of Gog “of the land of Magog”, who will come from his place out of the uttermost parts of the north, he and many peoples with him, “all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.” It will be seen that the “land of Magog” can no longer be located south of the Caucasus, and indeed Ezekiel's prophecy of the invasion of Gog has been interpreted as an echo of the invasions of the Cimmerians, who came southwards from the steppes through the Darial pass towards the end of the eighth century B.C.; or more probably of the invasion of the Scythians which took place in the following century by way of Darband. Finally we are told in Revelation that “when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea”.


Author(s):  
Tishkin A. ◽  
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PLASTEEVA N. ◽  
SABLIN M. ◽  
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...  

This article continues the publication of information about the osteological remains of the Pazyryk horses, which are stored in the funds of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Among the available collections, materials from the burial mounds of such Altai sites as Katanda-II and Aragol were identified. The first archaeological complex in the 1920s was studied by S.I. Rudenko. It is located in a section of a valley near the confluence of the Katanda River with the Katun River. There, nearby in 1865 V. V. Radlov conducted his work. In 1925, two ancient burial mounds with the burials of ordinary nomads, who were accompanied by ritual burials ofhorses, were excavated. The second complex was discovered and studied in 1924-1925 on the territory of Eastern Altai, not far from the well-known group of “royal” burial mounds in the Pazyryk tract. In 1929, a detachment of V.S. Adrianov during the planned work researched three burial objects of the Scythian-Saka time with the skeletons of horses in two burials. In total, in these mounds, the osteological remains of seven horses were recorded. Incomplete skeletons of these animals were found in the storage. The recorded materials formed the basis for archaeozoological determinations. Keywords: altai, archaeological excavations, Pazyryk culture, horses, osteological collection, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, archaeozoology


2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-293
Author(s):  
Rebecca Gould

This essay investigates the challenges facing Caucasus philology, by which I mean the institutional capacity to conduct deep research into the literary cultures of Azerbaijan Republic, Georgia, Daghestan, and Chechnya. I argue that the philological approach to the literary cultures of the Caucasus has been a casualty of the rise of areas studies in the North American academy during the Cold War, and that Cold War legacies continue to shape Caucasus Studies to this day. I conclude by offering three proposals for opening exchanges between the humanities and the social sciences within Caucasus Studies. More broadly, this essay argues for a rapprochement between the social sciences and philological inquiry vis-à-vis the Caucasus.


1906 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 301-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Cowper Reed

A Small collection of fossils from the Bokkeveld Beds has recently been sent to me for identification by the South African Museum, and some of them have been generously presented to the Sedgwick Museum. Amongst this material it is interesting to find some genera not previously recorded from the Cape and some new species. The majority of the specimens are in the condition of internal casts, and hence present especial difficulties in their determination, so that in a few cases some uncertainty must remain as to the generic position of the fossils. However, I am able to record for the first time from these beds the occurrence of the well-known lamellibranchiate genus Buchiola, and of a shell which may be identified with Nyussa arguta, Hall, of the North American Devonian. The genus Buchiola occurs in argillaceous nodules from the Zwartberg Pass crowded with individuals of the species which I have named B. subpalmata and with a few examples of an undetermined species. No other associated fossils can be recognised in these nodules, but I am informed that an abundant fauna is found in the beds at this locality.


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