| Titre : | Zoology in the Middle East 66(4) - October, 2020 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/10/2020 |
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The genus Andrena is one of the most speciose groups of bees, and because of its large degree of morphological variability it has continued to defy subgeneric classification. Recent advances have identified the species-poor group Cubiandrena War[...]
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Maxim Nabozhenko, Auteur ;
Erol Yıldırım, Auteur
A new tenebrionid species Ceratanisus diyarbakiricus sp. n. (Pimeliinae: Ceratanisini) is described from southeastern Anatolia. This is the most eastern representative of the mucoreus species-group. The species is similar to C. mucoreus (Waltl, [...]
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Sunius shavrini sp. n. is described from Ankara province in central Anatolia. While most of the Turkish Sunius species, especially all Turkish endemics are restricted to the mountains of western Anatolia and the Taurus mountains in southern Anat[...]
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Sammy De Grave, Auteur ;
Christopher W. Ashelby, Auteur
The shrimp species Palaemon audouini Heller, 1861, described from the Red Sea, has long been considered a nomen dubium but examination of the type material in the zoological collections of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien, Austria determined[...]
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Sevan Ağdamar, Auteur ;
Ömür Baysal, Auteur ;
Ayşegül Yıldız, Auteur ;
Ali Serhan Tarkan, Auteur
Freshwater fish are one of the most frequently translocated and introduced aquatic animal groups and exhibit higher establishment ratios than many other taxa. Introductions are usually irreversible. One of common non-native fish species in Turke[...]
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Mohamed A. M. Kadry, Auteur ;
Abdulaziz R. Al-Qahtani, Auteur ;
Sayed A. M. Amer, Auteur
From the seven recognised subspecies of Stellagama stellio, S. s. vulgaris is found in northwestern Egypt and S. stellio salehi in the south Sinai and are known to be very similar. A Principal Component Analysis was carried out for 14 morphometr[...]
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Christopher R. J. Boland, Auteur ;
Bruce O. Burwell, Auteur
The endangered Asir Magpie Pica asirensis formerly occurred in alpine habitat across Saudi Arabia’s Asir Mountains but is now restricted to small patches of remnant forest within a 37-km strip of highlands. Perhaps only 100 pairs remain and this[...]
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Roman V. Yakovlev, Auteur ;
Nataly Yu Snegovaya, Auteur
A new species of carpenter moth, Phragmataecia effendii sp. n. from the Şirvan steppe of Central Azerbaijan is proposed. The new species differs from the known Palaearctic species externally (colour) and in the male genitalia. A detailed diagnos[...]
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Nana Gratiashvili, Auteur ;
Lena Kuschel, Auteur ;
Jürgen Heinze, Auteur
The ant genus Cardiocondyla is characterised by a remarkable variability of reproductive life histories and colony structures. Little is known about the C. stambuloffii group, whose distribution extends from southeast Europe to central and easte[...]
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Martin Schwentner, Auteur ;
Alexander V. Rudov, Auteur ;
Hossein Rajaei, Auteur
We describe Phallocryptus fahimii sp. n., the fifth species in the genus, based on combined morphological and molecular genetic analyses. It is endemic to Iran and known only from its type locality in the Lut desert. The Lut desert has been desi[...]
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Mehdi Ghanbarifardi, Auteur ;
Carolin Gut, Auteur ;
Zeinab Gholami, Auteur ;
Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Auteur ;
Christoph Gierl, Auteur ;
Bettina Reichenbacher, Auteur
The otoliths of three mudskipper species from the Persian Gulf that are characterised by different degrees of amphibious adaptation were examined using SEM imaging and otolith morphometry. Scartelaos tenuis, which is the most aquatic of the thre[...]



