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Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction Based on Fossil Beetle Faunas from the Altai-Xinjiang Region, China
Holocene palaeoenvironmental reconstruction based on fossil beetle faunas from the Altai-Xinjiang region, China Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of London By Tianshu Zhang February 2018 Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London Declaration of Authorship I Tianshu Zhang hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated. Signed: Date: 25/02/2018 1 Abstract This project presents the results of the analysis of fossil beetle assemblages extracted from 71 samples from two peat profiles from the Halashazi Wetland in the southern Altai region of northwest China. The fossil assemblages allowed the reconstruction of local environments of the early (10,424 to 9500 cal. yr BP) and middle Holocene (6374 to 4378 cal. yr BP). In total, 54 Coleoptera taxa representing 44 genera and 14 families have been found, and 37 species have been identified, including a new species, Helophorus sinoglacialis. The majority of the fossil beetle species identified are today part of the Siberian fauna, and indicate cold steppe or tundra ecosystems. Based on the biogeographic affinities of the fossil faunas, it appears that the Altai Mountains served as dispersal corridor for cold-adapted (northern) beetle species during the Holocene. Quantified temperature estimates were made using the Mutual Climate Range (MCR) method. In addition, indicator beetle species (cold adapted species and bark beetles) have helped to identify both cold and warm intervals, and moisture conditions have been estimated on the basis of water associated species. -
Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae, Brachyceridae, Curculionidae) of the Prairies Ecozone in Canada
143 Chapter 4 Weevils (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae, Brachyceridae, Curculionidae) of the Prairies Ecozone in Canada Robert S. Anderson Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 6P4 Email: [email protected] Patrice Bouchard* Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0C6 Email: [email protected] *corresponding author Hume Douglas Entomology, Ottawa Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Building 18, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1A 0C6 Email: [email protected] Abstract. Weevils are a diverse group of plant-feeding beetles and occur in most terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. This chapter documents the diversity and distribution of 295 weevil species found in the Canadian Prairies Ecozone belonging to the families Dryophthoridae (9 spp.), Brachyceridae (13 spp.), and Curculionidae (273 spp.). Weevils in the Prairies Ecozone represent approximately 34% of the total number of weevil species found in Canada. Notable species with distributions restricted to the Prairies Ecozone, usually occurring in one or two provinces, are candidates for potentially rare or endangered status. Résumé. Les charançons forment un groupe diversifié de coléoptères phytophages et sont présents dans la plupart des écosystèmes terrestres et dulcicoles. Le présent chapitre décrit la diversité et la répartition de 295 espèces de charançons vivant dans l’écozone des prairies qui appartiennent aux familles suivantes : Dryophthoridae (9 spp.), Brachyceridae (13 spp.) et Curculionidae (273 spp.). Les charançons de cette écozone représentent environ 34 % du total des espèces de ce groupe présentes au Canada. Certaines espèces notables, qui ne se trouvent que dans cette écozone — habituellement dans une ou deux provinces — mériteraient d’être désignées rares ou en danger de disparition. -
Changes in Forest Productivity Across Alaska Consistent with Biome Shift
Ecology Letters, (2011) doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01598.x LETTER Changes in forest productivity across Alaska consistent with biome shift Abstract Pieter S. A. Beck,1* Glenn P. Juday,2 Global vegetation models predict that boreal forests are particularly sensitive to a biome shift during the 21st Claire Alix,3 Valerie A. Barber,2 century. This shift would manifest itself first at the biomeÕs margins, with evergreen forest expanding into Stephen E. Winslow,2 Emily E. current tundra while being replaced by grasslands or temperate forest at the biomeÕs southern edge. Sousa,2 Patricia Heiser,2 James D. We evaluated changes in forest productivity since 1982 across boreal Alaska by linking satellite estimates of Herriges4 and Scott J. Goetz1 primary productivity and a large tree-ring data set. Trends in both records show consistent growth increases at the boreal–tundra ecotones that contrast with drought-induced productivity declines throughout interior Alaska. These patterns support the hypothesized effects of an initiating biome shift. Ultimately, tree dispersal rates, habitat availability and the rate of future climate change, and how it changes disturbance regimes, are expected to determine where the boreal biome will undergo a gradual geographic range shift, and where a more rapid decline. Keywords Boreal forests, drought, evergreen forests, global warming, high latitudes, NDVI, productivity, remote sensing, tree rings. Ecology Letters (2011) agreement with model outputs (Forbes et al. 2010). Populations of far INTRODUCTION northern trees in cold marginal environments have sustained positive Over the 21st century, dynamic global vegetation models predict that growth responses to temperature, and in recent decades have grown at the boreal biome is likely to experience forest conversion and losses their greatest recorded rates (Juday et al. -
Coleoptera: Insecta) of Saskatchewan
1 CHECKLIST OF BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: INSECTA) OF SASKATCHEWAN R. R. Hooper1 and D. J. Larson2 1 – Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, SK. Deceased. 2 – Box 56, Maple Creek, SK. S0N 1N0 Introduction A checklist of the beetles of Canada (Bousquet 1991) was published 20 years ago in order to provide a list of the species known from Canada and Alaska along with their correct names and a indication of their distribution by major political units (provinces, territories and state). A total of 7447 species and subspecies were recognized in this work. British Columbia and Ontario had the most diverse faunas, 3628 and 3843 taxa respectively, whereas Saskatchewan had a relatively poor fauna (1673 taxa) which was about two thirds that its neighbouring provinces (Alberta – 2464; Manitoba – 2351). This raises the question of whether the Canadian beetle fauna is distributed like a doughnut with a hole in the middle, or is there some other explanation. After assembling available literature records as well as the collection records available to us, we present a list of 2312 species (generally only single subspecies of a species are recognized in the province) suggesting that the Canadian distribution pattern of species is more like that of a Bismark, the dough may be a little thinner in the center but there is also a core of good things. This list was largely R. Hopper’s project. He collected Saskatchewan insects since at least the 1960’s and over the last decade before his death he had compiled a list of the species he had collected along with other records from the literature or given him by other collectors (Hooper 2001). -
Evidence from Unit 4 at Ch'ijee's Bluff, Bluefish Basin*
Document generated on 09/28/2021 6:30 a.m. Géographie physique et Quaternaire The Last (Koy-Yukon) Interglaciation in the Northern Yukon: Evidence from Unit 4 at Ch’ijee’s Bluff, Bluefish Basin Indices de la dernière interglaciation (Koy-Yukon) dans l’unité no 4 de Ch’ijee’s Bluff, bassin du Bluefish, dans le nord du Yukon Die letzte (Koy-Yukon) Interglazialzeit im nördlichen Yukon: Belege von der Einheit 4 in Ch’ijee’s Bluff, Bluefish Basin John V. Matthews, Charles E. Schweger and Jan A. Janssens The Last? Interglaciation in Canada Article abstract Le dernier (?) interglaciaire au Canada The effects of predicted anthropogenic warming can be assessed in part by Volume 44, Number 3, 1990 documenting responses to past warming events. One of the most pronounced warmings was the last interglaciation - stage 5 of the marine isotope record. A URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/032835ar large multinational and multidisciplinary project (CELIA) was launched DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/032835ar recently in order to gain detailed knowledge of the climate during stage 5. Several key exposures were identified by CELIA; one of them is Ch'ijee's Bluff on the Porcupine River, northern Yukon. Pollen, plant and insect macrofossils See table of contents and stratigraphie evidence from Ch'ijee's Bluff show that the part of Ch'ijee's Unit 4 that is above and younger than Old Crow tephra (OCt) was deposited during an interval of climate warmer than present. When OCt was dated at 85 Publisher(s) ka BP, the subsequent warming interval was presumed to be correlative with the early part of marine isotope stage 3. -
Cleonini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae) Are Monophyletic and Flightless: Tribe Overview, Rampant Adult Homoplasy and Illustrated Global Diversity
Zootaxa 4329 (1): 001–063 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2017 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4329.1.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7B2A9855-72F2-4869-AC71-97198120265B Cleonini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae) are monophyletic and flightless: tribe overview, rampant adult homoplasy and illustrated global diversity YURI G. ARZANOV1 & VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV2 1apt. 36, bul’var Komarova 13/1, Rostov-on-Don, 344092, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 2CFIA, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] Dedication This work is dedicated to the memory of Margarita E. Ter-Minassian (born on May 16, 1910 in Leipzig, Germany, died on April 9, 1995 in St. Petersburg, Russia; obituary: Korotyaev 2010; list of described taxa: Arzanov & Korotyaev 2011), former PhD supervisor of one of us (YuA), in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the knowledge of the Palae- arctic Cleonini weevils. Abstract We summarize knowledge of the weevil tribe Cleonini worldwide, including its monophyly, relationships, distribution, biology, immature stages, economic significance and paleontology. We score adult morphological characters for 79 of a total of 96 extant genus-group Cleonini taxa considered valid to date. The resulting matrix contains 121 parsimoniously informative characters scored for 145 ingroup (Cleonini) and 29 outgroup terminals. Maximum Parsimony (MP) and Bayesian Inference (BI) analyses consistently recover monophyletic Lixinae and Cleonini. Relationships within the latter remain unresolved with either 47 (BI) or 37 (MP) branches radiating from the tribe’s most recent common ancestor. -
Late Pleistocene Insects from the Dubrovino Site at Ob River (West Siberia, Russia) and Their Paleoenvironmental Significance
Palaeontologia Electronica palaeo-electronica.org Late Pleistocene insects from the Dubrovino site at Ob River (West Siberia, Russia) and their paleoenvironmental significance Anna A. Gurina, Roman Yu. Dudko, Sergey E. Tshernyshev, Eugeny V. Zinovyev, and Andrei A. Legalov ABSTRACT A blue-grey clay loam lens with plant and insect remains was found in an expo- sure of the Ob River, 2 km upper Dubrovino village in Novosibirskaya Oblast of Russia. Conventional radiocarbon dating of the Dubrovino deposit is ca 19,444±159 14C BP (23,234±338 cal yr BP) and coincides with Sartan glaciation period (MIS 2). Ninety-two Coleoptera species, dominated by fragments of Curculionidae and Carabidae are rep- resented in the Dubrovino deposit. Species of the tundra-steppe fauna are dominant, followed by meadow-dwelling taxa and coniferous forest taxa. A comparison of the Dubrovino assemblage with the previously studied late Pleistocene Kalistratikha and Bunkovo fossil assemblages showed that tundra-steppe landscapes with coniferous groves and sparse meadow vegetation were typical for this area from the end of Kargin interglacial (MIS 3) through the end of the Sartan glaciation (MIS 2). Anna A. Gurina. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia. [email protected] Roman Yu. Dudko. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia. [email protected] Sergey E. Tshernyshev. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia and Tomsk State University, Lenina Prospekt 36, Tomsk 634050, Russia. -
Contents List of Illustrations
STATE OF MICHIGAN Fish Habitats. ...............................................................49 MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY Lake Superior Shoal.............................................. 49 Beach Ponds. ........................................................ 50 Publication 20. Biological Series 4. Marsh Lakes and Streams..................................... 51 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS Shelldrake Lake..................................................... 55 ON THE Shelldrake River. ................................................... 55 ZOOLOGY OF MICHIGAN. List of Species..............................................................56 Hypothetical List of Species.........................................62 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF Summary and Conclusions. .........................................64 ALEXANDER G. RUTHVEN Bibliography..................................................................66 CHIEF NATURALIST PUBLISHED AS A PART OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF GEOLOGICAL SURYEY FOR 1915. List of Illustrations LANSING, MICHIGAN WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD CO., STATE PRINTERS 1916 Plates Plate I. General view of east shore of South Twin Lake, looking south from Station 1...........................................11 Contents Plate II. South Twin Lake, looking northwest, showing broad Observations on the Fishes of Houghton County, shoal with a scant rush growth and the zones of shore vegetation.......................................................................11 Michigan, by Thomas L. Hankinson............................. -
From Siberia and the Russian Far East
Acta Biologica Sibirica 6: 437–549 (2020) doi: 10.3897/abs.6.e59314 https://abs.pensoft.net RESEARCH ARTICLE Revised checklist of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea excluding Scolytidae and Platypodidae) from Siberia and the Russian Far East Andrei A. Legalov1, 2 1 Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, SB RAS, Frunze street 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, Russia 2 Atai State University, Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia Corresponding author: Andrei A. Legalov ([email protected]) Academic editor: R. Yakovlev | Received 4 October 2020 | Accepted 16 October 2020 | Published 9 November 2020 http://zoobank.org/B00D92C7-F0E3-4563-80B0-E6F99CD290E6 Citation: Legalov AA (2020) Revised checklist of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea excluding Scolytidae and Platypodidae) from Siberia and the Russian Far East. Acta Biologica Sibirica 6: 437–549. https://doi.org/10.3897/ abs.6.e59314 Abstract Currently, 1464 species of Curculionid beetles (Nemonychydae – 1, Anthribidae – 76, Rhynchitidae – 78, Attelabidae – 28, Brentidae – 131 and Curculionidae – 1150) are recorded from Siberia and the Russian Far East. Forty species are found in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, 84 species in Khan- ty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, 313 species in Tyumen Oblast, 182 species in Chelyabinsk Oblast, 129 species in Kurgan Oblast, 172 species in Omsk Oblast, 299 species in Tomsk Oblast, 439 species in Novosibirsk Oblast, 324 species in Kemerovo Oblast, 356 species in Altay Krai, 296 species in Altai Republic, 182 species in Krasnoyarsk Krai, 114 species in Republic of Khakassia, 244 species in Tyva Republic, 283 species in Irkutsk Oblast, 239 species in Buryatiya Republic, 286 species in Zabaikalskii Krai, 153 species in Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, 74 species in Far East: Kamchatka Oblast, 43 species in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, 105 species in Magadan Oblast, 325 species in Amur Oblast, 312 species in Khabarovsk Krai, 599 species in Primorsky Krai, 225 species in Sakhalin Is. -
Diversity of Beetles (Coleoptera) in Natural and Planted Saxaul Forests (Haloxylon Ammodendron) in the South Gobi Desert, Mongolia
ZooKeys 1000: 59–70 (2020) A peer-reviewed open-access journal doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1000.56856 RESEARCH ARTICLE https://zookeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Diversity of beetles (Coleoptera) in natural and planted saxaul forests (Haloxylon ammodendron) in the South Gobi Desert, Mongolia Buyanjargal Batchuluun1, Jens Wunderlich2, Michael Schmitt3 1 Laboratory of Entomology, Institute of Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2 Michael Succow Foundation, Greifswald, Germany 3 General and Systematic Zoology, Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany Corresponding author: Buyanjargal Batchuluun ([email protected]) Academic editor: L. Penev | Received 23 July 2020 | Accepted 12 October 2020 | Published 3 December 2020 http://zoobank.org/045E0341-FAFB-4D4C-8F67-8969D37D611A Citation: Batchuluun B, Wunderlich J, Schmitt M (2020) Diversity of beetles (Coleoptera) in natural and planted saxaul forests (Haloxylon ammodendron) in the South Gobi Desert, Mongolia. ZooKeys 1000: 59–70. https://doi. org/10.3897/zookeys.1000.56856 Abstract We investigated species composition and diversity parameters of beetle communities in two planted saxaul (Haloxylon ammodendron, black saxaul) forests in Southern Mongolia. We also studied nearby natural areas for comparison. Beetles were mainly collected by pitfall traps. 1064 individuals of 38 species of 22 genera in 4 beetle families were identified from planted plots. In comparison, a total of 1395 beetles belonging to 40 species of 24 genera in seven families were collected and identified from the natural saxaul plots. The most diverse beetle families were darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae, 18 species) and snout beetles (Curculionidae, 15 species) in planted and natural saxaul plots. We recorded several species (Apatophysis serricornis, Cepho- genia chinensis, and Eumylada punctifera punctifera) which are associated with the saxaul tree. -
Anderson 1987 Qev23n4 431 709 CC Released.Pdf
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. SYSTEMATICS, PHYLOGENY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF NEW WORLD WEEVILS TRADITIONALLY OF THE TRIBE CLEONINI (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE; CLEONINAE) Robert Samuel Anderson Department of Entomology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3 Quaestiones Entomologicae CANADA 23:431-709 1987 ABSTRACT A survey of representatives of generic-group names in Cleoninae and consideration of their phylogenetic relationships indicates four genera are represented in the New World. These are: Cleonis Dejean (introduced; 1 species); Stephanocleonus Motschulsky (Holarctic, northern; 6 species including S. confusus n. sp. [type locality, Black Hills, South Dakota], S. immaculatus n. sp. [type locality, Fort McMurray, Alberta], S. parshus n. sp. [type locality, Chalk River, Ontario], and S. stenothorax n. sp. [type locality, Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory]); Apleurus Chevrolat (southwestern North America, arid lands; 8 species); and, Cleonidius Casey (eastern and western North America, semi-arid and arid lands; 19 species including C. eustictorrhinus n.sp. [type locality, Sacramento, California], C. infrequens n. sp. [type locality, Scott City, Kansas], and, C. notolomus n. sp. [type locality, Grant County, New Mexico]). Cleonidius is hypothesized to be phylogenetically more closely related to traditional Lixini rather than Cleonini and present tribal classification of Cleoninae is regarded as unsatisfactory. The following new generic-group synonymies are presented: Lixus Fabricius (=Epimeces Billberg [type species Curculio filiformis Fabricius, here designated]); Stephanocleonus Motschulsky (^Coniocleonus Motschulsky); Apleurus Chevrolat (^Centrocleonus LeConte, Cleonopsis LeConte, Cleonaspis LeConte, and Dinocleus Casey); and, Cleonidius Casey (^Lixestus Reitter). -
Colydiidae, Corylophidae 200 Nomina Insecta Nearctica
199 NOMINA INSECTA NEARCTICA Lasconotus knulli Stephan 1989 (Lasconotus) Pycnomerus arizonicus Stephan 1989 (Pycnomerus) Lasconotus laqueatus LeConte 1866 (Lasconotus) Pycnomerus haematodes Fabricius 1801 (Colydium) Lasconotus linearis Crotch 1874 (Lasconotus) Pycnomerus quercus Stephan 1989 (Pycnomerus) Lasconotus nucleatus Casey 1890 (Lasconotus) Pycnomerus reflexus Say 1825 (Lyctus) Lasconotus pertenuis Casey 1890 (Lasconotus) Pycnomerus sulcicollis LeConte 1863 (Pycnomerus) Lasconotus planipennis Kraus 1912 (Lasconotus) Lasconotus pusillus LeConte 1863 (Lasconotus) Rhagodera Erichson 1845 Lasconotus referendarius Zimmermann 1869 (Lasconotus) Lasconotus servus Horn 1885 (Lasconotus) Rhagodera costata Horn 1867 (Rhagodera) Lasconotus simplex LeConte 1866 (Lasconotus) Rhagodera interrupta Stephan 1989 (Rhagodera) Lasconotus subcostulatus Kraus 1912 (Lasconotus) Rhagodera texana Stephan 1989 (Rhagodera) Lasconotus tuberculatus Kraus 1912 (Lasconotus) Rhagodera tuberculata Mannerheim 1843 (Rhagodera) Lasconotus vegrandis Horn 1885 (Lasconotus) Lasconotus apicalis Casey 1890 Syn. Rustleria Stephan 1989 Lasconotus schwarzi Kraus 1912 Syn. Rustleria obscura Stephan 1989 (Rustleria) Lobogestoria Reitter 1878 Aditoma Casey 1897 Syn. Synchita Hellwig 1792 Lobogestoria gibbicollis Reitter 1878 (Lobogestoria) Synchita fuliginosa Melsheimer 1846 (Synchita) Aditoma bifida Casey 1897 Syn. Synchita nigripennis LeConte 1863 Syn. Synchita laticollis LeConte 1863 (Ditoma) Megataphrus Casey 1890 Bitoma paradisea Blatchley 1930 Syn. Megataphrus arizonicus