| Titre : | Zoology in the Middle East 64(3) - July, 2018 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/07/2018 |
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Article
I compared the type specimens of Drilus attenuatus Pic, 1914 and D. attenuatus var. subparallelus Pic, 1934 from Rhodes. Both taxa are redescribed and the latter is given the full species status based on the different external morphology and mal[...]
Article
Donald L. J. Quicke, Auteur ;
Frank Koch, Auteur ;
Gavin R. Broad, Auteur ;
Andrew M. R. Bennett, Auteur ;
Simon van Noort, Auteur ;
Paul D. N. Hebert, Auteur ;
Buntika A. Butcher, Auteur
The distinctive braconine wasp genus Rhytimorpha Szépligeti is distributed through Africa and the Near East. We provide photographic illustrations of the type specimens of the two species of Rhytimorpha known up to the present, R. coccinea Szépl[...]
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Zorica Nedeljković, Auteur ;
Ante Vujić, Auteur ;
Rüstem Hayat, Auteur ;
Ljiljana Šašić Zorić, Auteur ;
Mihajla Đan, Auteur
A new species of the genus Chrysotoxum (Diptera: Syrphidae), Chrysotoxum bozdagensis Nedeljković, Vujić & Hayat sp. n., collected from Bozdağ Mt., İzmir Province, Turkey is described and illustrated. Chrysotoxum bozdagensis sp. n. can be disting[...]
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Fish scales are morphologically diverse among species, within species, and even among individuals. The present study investigated macro- and micromorphology of the scales between two closely related Aphanius species in southern Iran including Ap[...]
Article
Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Auteur ;
Hossein Alinezhad, Auteur ;
Ehsan Hadipour, Auteur ;
Iman Memarian, Auteur ;
Stéphane Ostrowski, Auteur ;
Kaveh Hobeali, Auteur ;
Amirhossein Dadashi-Jourdehi, Auteur ;
Paul J. Johnson, Auteur ;
David W. Macdonald, Auteur ;
Luke T. B. Hunter, Auteur
Intraspecific aggression is one of the most common causes of death in leopards. Here, we report four cases of intraspecific killing amongst Persian Leopards (Panthera pardus saxicolor) in Iran. A young male leopard was found on 7 June 2008 which[...]
Article
Matthias Riedel, Auteur ;
Farid Shirzadegan, Auteur ;
Ali Asghar Talebi, Auteur
We describe two new species, Anisobas rufoventris Riedel sp. n. from Iran and Anisobas maculatus Riedel sp. n. from Uzbekistan. Within the genus Anisobas Wesmael, both new species are similar to Anisobas cephalotes Kriechbaumer due to their wide[...]
Article
Mikdat Doğanlar, Auteur ;
M. Murat Aslan, Auteur
Two new species of torymids, Pseudotorymus hasanberkayi sp. n. and Microdontomerus kahramanmarasensis sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), were reared from flower heads of Echinops orientalis Trautvetter (Asteraceae) collected in Kahramanmaraş provi[...]
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Mohammad-Reza Babaei, Auteur ;
Seyed Ali Asghar Fathi, Auteur ;
Ebrahim Gilasian, Auteur ;
Hassan Barimani Varandi, Auteur
For understanding the relationship between floral resources and the abundance of hoverflies, five meadows were selected at different elevations in a forested region. At each site the number of flowering herbaceous plants was assessed along a tra[...]
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Mehdi Ghanbarifardi, Auteur ;
Mansour Aliabadian, Auteur ;
Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Auteur
Mudskippers are amphibious air breathing fish with terrestrial adaptations in contrast to entirely aquatic fish. They are adapted to living on mudflats and show morphological, physiological, and behavioural features that could affect their phylo[...]
Article
Mostafa Saleh, Auteur ;
Mahmoud Younes, Auteur ;
Moustafa Sarhan, Auteur ;
Fouad Abdel-Hamid, Auteur
The Egyptian Wolf Canis lupaster was recently rediscovered as a distinct species on the basis of both morphologic and molecular genetic evidence. Phenotypical variability, including coat colour of this species across its vast, ecologically diver[...]
Article
Yury Verves, Auteur ;
Lydmyla Khrokalo, Auteur
A list of 285 species of Sarcophagidaе in the Middle East countries is presented with distributional data, including Bahrain (3 species), Cyprus (46), Egypt (both African and Asian parts) (114), Iran (83), Iraq (17), Israel (113), Jordan (14), K[...]
