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Bad Den, 26.06.2006 15:05

This weekend (on the night from Friday to Saturday) caught the light from the split DRL-250. This time I caught it not at home, but at my parents ' house, from the glazed loggia (9th floor). This is the outskirts of the city, facing the private sector, a cemetery, 500 meters away - a ravine overgrown with small-leaved species (willow, elm, aspen, linden), 5 kilometers away-the Volga River.
The explosion started immediately after switching on the lamp, it did not even have time to properly light up (what was the reason - the place or the weather, I can not say, the night was very warm, although clear). The very first diptera appeared, as usual (various mosquitoes-ringer, gallica, etc.). Next, beetles began to arrive: Ground beetles Harpalus (Pseudophonus) rufipes Deg. and at least 2 species of Bembidion sp. Ground beetles were the largest in terms of the number of specimens. Then floaters began to appear (2-4 species). Then the butterflies arrived in time - I barely had time to change the stains and shake out the exhauster (when several ground beetles located in the eggshauster "gas the atmosphere" with acetic acid vapors, it becomes fun to collect other insects in this eggshauster, but it is also problematic to clear your throat after each breath ). Soft-bodied Cantharis perched on the screen and predated with might and main, eating small diptera.
Suddenly there were hawks (as I think Hyles gallii and Deilephila elpenor) - only you can hear a sharp " F-R-R-R-R slap!", I look around - sitting on the screen, krosavcheg .
In total, I caught 83 specimens of beetles from 17 families:
Carabidae
Dytiscidae
Hydrophilidae
Silphidae
Staphylinidae
Dermestidae
Cantharidae
Heteroceridae
Elateridae
Coccinellidae
Colydiidae
Tenebrionidae
Cerambycidae
Chrysomelidae
Scolytidae

Of the butterflies, there were mostly scoops (most) - from those that I could recognize from the pictures - Melanchra persicariae and Tholera decimalis, 2 hawkmoth (as I said above), scoops (2 species-Habrosyne pyritoides and Thyatira batis), moth Comibaena bajularia.

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28.07.2006 15:59, vespabellicosus

I also want to share the result of fishing. Unfortunately, because of my studies and work, I can't brag about hiking and expeditions. I mainly explore the surroundings of Cheboksa - despite the proximity of the city, there is quite a rich entomofauna. It still turns out to occasionally break out into the forests of Tatarstan-about 200 km from my city. The last time I visited Cheboksary was on June 24-I caught bumblebees and their parasites - bumblebees of cuckoos and psytirus. I caught a female rock bumblebee Bombus lapidarius and 2 male psytiriuses-P. campestris and P. sylvestris. I also found a hornet's nest. I also caught a single Crabro wasp. But I can't pinpoint it in any way, apparently I'll have to send the picture back to the Moscow State University Museum for identification. Such are the modest results.

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21.08.2006 21:25, Necrocephalus

Today I got out into the pine forest, what just did not catch! It all started with a metallic blue horntail that I found laying eggs in a freshly cut pine log. Unfortunately, I had to stop him

. It turned out that in this forest (or rather, in the part of it that I visited today, and where I haven't been for a long time), apparently, a power line is being laid - a whole strip of forest 7 meters wide was cut down and the trees were dragged to the side. I decided to walk around the clearing, and, as it turned out, it was not for nothing

that I finally caught 4 species of barbel, 3 of which are new to me-Spondylis buprestoides and Monochamus galloprovincialis pistor (by the way, is pistor a subspecies name? unclear... In Plavilshchikov, this species is simply called pistor). I also caught some kind of barbel, like Archopalus, its photo can be seen in the topic " Who is this?", I haven't determined the type yet. Finally, I caught Hylobius abietis weevils, two solitary wasps (like sphex, I don't know exactly), and found a dead forest dung beetle. That's

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24.08.2006 18:35, Necrocephalus

Today again went to the pine forest, and caught the same zlatka

It is really small, 8 mm in length only. It was caught on a freshly cut (by someone, not me

) pine tree lying on the ground. I tried to identify it, like it turned out that this is Phaenops cyanea, and it is very similar to the cyanea photo found on the Internet (both in shape and color), but my zlatka has two large pits on the pronotum, and there are no such pits on the psp in the photo of cyanea from the Internet, and their presence is not in the determinant agreed... Question: can it be that I came across such a kind of variation of cyanea, with pits on the pronotum? Or does their presence clearly exclude that my beetle belongs to this species? I wanted to take a photo, but the gold is too dark and small, it turns out indistinct and blurry...

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24.11.2006 23:47, Necrocephalus

On November 3, I went to the pine forest - I had the idea to pick up wintering beetles. I found a lot of interesting things, to be honest, I didn't even expect such a result. First, I caught a whole bunch of Pytho depressus beetles under the bark of dead pine trees. In the same place, under the bark, there were many wintering Rhagium inquisitor, which I was not interested in, as well as quite large larvae of some kind of goldworm about 3 cm long - which one, I do not know, I think to find out in the trace. season. Also under the bark, I came across the wintering cow Harmonia quadripunctata, which was new to my collection, as well as a very interesting beetle from the Boridae family - Boros schneideri, which was also new to me and seemed to me a very valuable find (I don't know how rare it is, but an Internet search showed that it is listed in some of the collections of the Boridae family). regional Red Books). Under the large pieces of bark that had been lying on the ground since the summer, I picked up some small ground beetles (like Bembidion), as well as some shield-bearer (Cassidinae) and a large elephant from the genus Larinus, I think Larinus vulpes. Among other insects, I noticed an unusual abundance in various shelters of some riders from the Ichneumonidae family-literally under each piece of bark, under each fallen tree, they sat in groups of about 5-10 pieces (sometimes more). I took a couple of them for myself - if anyone is interested, I can take pictures of them and post them on the forum.

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06.02.2007 12:35, omar

I would like to note once again that the species is not widespread, but it occurs regularly. I've never seen him in heaps, either, always one or two in one stump, but I see him regularly. As for the Upis, I caught one last year, but I haven't seen one before. A friend of mine collected three in the same year and also in this area. If you have any information, any articles, especially Nikitsky's, on the Moscow region, especially faunal works, I will bow down to you if you send the scans to my email address. There he has a lot of work on xylophages. Another interesting thing for the MO, since we are talking about black chicks-have you ever come across Cylindronotus gilvipes? I saw it once in 1998. And what year are your upis?

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06.02.2007 14:24, Dmitry Vlasov

2Omar
Most of Nikitsky's articles are available in photocopies (and even two books), but there is no way to scan them. Moreover, I do not know if it is possible to scan bad photocopies well. But in Moscow, finding them is probably not a problem.
Cylindronotus gilvipes did not catch, he is a "southerner", and I mainly catch in the Yaroslavl region, and in the Moscow Region-only by hitting. Upis were collected in Pavlovo-Posadsky district, in the vicinity of Elektrogorsk, under the bark of birch trees in the marshes, May 1, 1988. There you could collect dozens of them, under the bark of each stump sat 2-3 beetles. There I also found one Boros (in a hollow pine tree). In YAO collected in the ROC. biostations for two years ONLY on one pine tree....

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06.02.2007 22:33, omar

Books? I know that there was only an orange-colored book on griboyedov, with extremely strange data on distribution. For example, M. tschitcscherini is recognized as a purely oriental species, hardly reaching the Moscow Region, which is extremely rare in the Moscow region and only on holidays. I have observed hundreds of times dozens of these beetles in all areas of the MO, all my friends have these beetles in collections in abundance from all areas of the MO. I can collect a kilo of them next year without looking at them. Many people who mark this species in faunal reports for different regions of the Golden Ring of Russia, puff up their cheeks, citing Nikitsky's data as an argument. In my opinion, I saw something in the Yaroslavl region. Please debunk my nonsense, Mr. Yelizar.

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07.02.2007 10:44, guest: Elizar

Something I can't log in to!!!
2Omar
Nikitsky has published two books in addition to Griboyedov:
Nikitsky N. B., Osipov I. N., Chemeris M. V., Semenov V. B., Gusakov A. A. Coleoptera-xylobionts, mycetobionts, and lamelliferae of the Prioksko-Terrasny Biosphere Reserve (with an overview of the fauna of these groups in the Moscow Region). Moscow: MSU Publishing House, 1996, 197 p.
Nikitsky N. B., Semenov V. B., Dolgin M. M. Coleoptera-xylobionts, mycetobionts, and lamelliferae of the Prioksko-Terrasny Biosphere Reserve (with an overview of the fauna of these groups in the Moscow region). Supplement 1 (with comments on the nomenclature and taxonomy of some Melandryidae beetles of the world fauna). Moscow: MSU Publishing House, 1998. 55 p.
About griboyedov Chicherin - I also collected them in "PILES"in early spring. yes, and in subsequent articles by Nikitsky, he is indicated from many districts of the Moscow Region. In the YAO, this species was indicated as early as 1902
. The fact that you found this species in mass quantities once again indicates that the biological features of many hidden-living species are not studied. If a person obtains such information, he will be able to provide all colleagues with "rare" species...

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07.02.2007 11:06, Necrocephalus

In addition to Griboyedov, Nikitsky published two books:
Nikitsky N. B., Osipov I. N., Chemeris M. V., Semenov V. B., Gusakov A. A. Coleoptera-xylobionts, mycetobionts, and lamelliferae of the Prioksko-Terrasny Biosphere Reserve (with an overview of the fauna of these groups in the Moscow Region). Moscow: MSU Publishing House, 1996, 197 p.
Nikitsky N. B., Semenov V. B., Dolgin M. M. Coleoptera-xylobionts, mycetobionts, and lamelliferae of the Prioksko-Terrasny Biosphere Reserve (with an overview of the fauna of these groups in the Moscow region). Supplement 1 (with comments on the nomenclature and taxonomy of some Melandryidae beetles of the world fauna). Moscow: MSU Publishing House, 1998. 55 p.

I don't get it... And this is Nikitsky N. B. 1980 B. Insect predators of bark beetles and their ecology. Moscow: Nauka, 237 p. - what is not a book?

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