Caucasus, Ciscaucasia and Transcaucasia

Thank you for the definitions! No, I didn't go down to the beaches, and I didn't notice any wild shores...

Sorry. Such malashki for the Russian Federation have not been noted yet. It will be necessary to visit there sometime (maybe).

Sorry. Such malashki for the Russian Federation have not been noted yet. It will be necessary to visit there sometime (maybe).

And what are they called? I would like to read about them.

Here's more.

Strange moth Gypsochroa renitidata from yesterday's Utrish:



The rest is all from the Anapa balcony.
Garella musculana come nightly. Has no one caught them here yet? Walnut in Anapa is probably the most planted tree, so I would be surprised if these are the first finds:





Who knows southern bryophylines well? Who's that?"



Is it Tephronia sepiaria?



Masenky sawyere. Exocentrus punctipennis?



This post was edited by kotbegemot - 06.09.2018 08: 44

  
Who knows southern bryophylines well? Who's that?"

Bryophila (Cryphia) rectilinea

What do I have to tell you for Sukkah?

Well, the Cypress Lake itself is a pure tourist gadyushnik (however, it is very advanced, moderately clean, with a tour center - for Russia in general, cool; only blue booths for 20 rubles treacherously gave out the country =) And so there is nothing to do on it.

I was walking among the hills around (see map) - there are a lot of barbecue sites and garbage and all day I did not leave the feeling that I was walking in a garbage dump =(



From the stop "Lukomorye" (No. 1) I went to the lake - and after crossing the river and the tour. the center came to an operational space )) (No. 2). There was a nice place on the way to the rope descent (where the Ameleses came across). After the dead end, I went down to the lake, walked along the beach and went to the forest (No. 3). It was also nice there, but there were a lot of people (kebabs, jeepers) and dirty.

Not-a rich place for insects (again, protected from the wind) - but it was recommended to me as the best place near Anapa - and it seems to me that I went somewhere not quite there...

In this connection, the question is: where else to get high? The desire to go again is there, but I want something more
What kind of river is there and how to get to it? If it means Sukkah, then where is the exit to it? Near the bridge it was somehow not prepossessing...
Maybe it makes sense to go from the bus stop not to the lake , but in the opposite direction?
Experts, ow!

This post was edited by kotbegemot - 06.09.2018 20: 57

Wow, how things have changed there! I've been to Sukkot several times, only in early July and August, and for a long time,about ten years ago. There was no such anthropogenic impact behind the lake, but there are clouds of insects! Abscesses in clusters, butterflies in assortment, mantises empusa, bolivarias and so on..
Near the horse base there is a dry forest, around vineyards and vacant lots.
In Utrish, along the cliff near the sea, almost every tree was inhabited by"savage" people.

This post was edited by Kallima - 06.09.2018 21: 15

Wow, how things have changed there! I've been to Sukkot several times, only in early July and August, and for a long time,about ten years ago. There was no such anthropogenic impact behind the lake, but there are clouds of insects! Abscesses in clusters, butterflies in assortment, mantises empusa, bolivarias and so on..
Near the horse base there is a dry forest, around vineyards and vacant lots.
In Utrish, along the cliff near the sea, almost every tree was inhabited by"savage" people.

And the horse base - meaning in the opposite direction from the stop? There are simply horse-drawn excursions offered at every turn.

And Utrish, imho, is being shat systematically: there the reserve was upgraded to a reserve status, bringing out a number of valuable territories for the construction of a" sports and recreation center " (in fact, like, under the dacha of Medvedev).
Everything is generally bad there. On the cliffs-parking, just off the path and behind each bush pile piled.

This post was edited by kotbegemot - 06.09.2018 21: 23

Of course,you shouldn't go there where horse rides are, although there were a lot of different dung plants near the base. It was higher, there were then abandoned vineyards,in general, the steppe. I don't know what it is now. We went to the lake a little differently, by a longer road, past the "African village", where there is a section of wetter forest. I wanted to put glasses on carabiners, but somehow it didn't work out. But if they built a tourist center there, maybe they've already trampled everything... sorry. We just walked along the river bottom! It's shallow. Large green bronzes flew over the trees...specialization is possible.

  

And Utrish, imho, is being shat systematically: there the reserve was upgraded to a reserve status, bringing out a number of valuable territories for the construction of a" sports and recreation center " (in fact, like, under the dacha of Medvedev).
Everything is generally bad there. On the cliffs-parking, just off the path and behind each bush pile piled.

There were many good places on Utrish, but they were hard to get to in a day on foot. It is necessary either on an SUV, or for a few days. Also, the season is unsuccessful, and so there are problems with water, and even the year is dry. If on the upper road from Sukko - there is an interesting ascent (but there is no water, especially now), and a Dry Estuary (usually there is water, in extreme cases a hydrogen sulfide source ), further down the State and Wide cracks (there is a lake and streams), and the vicinity of the salt lake (where the dolphinarium of the Ministry of Defense, before there was a well), and the Navagir gap, especially up (there is a public well at the bottom, there is now a "camping" around, and 2 springs at the top, but it is difficult for a beginner to find them), and the Wet gap following it (usually there is a stream, but in September I am not sure). There is also a good place on the other side, above the village of Bolshye Khutor-Makhnov and Nesvetov slits, where there are good streams and quite diverse biotopes. There are also nice places around Abrau Durso, but without any special rarities.
And so it is generally far away, but not very far, and there are many other things, for example, Taman. With mud volcanoes and endemes of Karabetova Gora, south-bank almost empty beaches (west of Bogazskaya Strelka and Salty Lake), interesting areas of steppes from them to the Wave (everything was disfigured in connection with the port and the highway, and there were still some to the east in 2015), much has been preserved there, from dybok to some very infrequent beetles. On butterflies, alas, not in the subject. There is now of course dry, and again the season is not the most successful, but after the first autumn rains a lot of steppe comes out.

I took a walk today on the Bald Mountain between Supsekh and Varvarovka:

https://evergestis.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/lysaya-gora/

Anapa fishing news to light.

Dolicharthria punctalis:



Over the weekend, there was a storm here, which brought Palpita vitrealis-yesterday I caught two males and one female:





Thalpophila matura:



This post was edited by kotbegemot - 12.09.2018 18: 58

I went to Vityazevo again today. If someone recognizes a caterpillar, a blackthorn and a wasp - we will live well!

https://evergestis.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/vityazevo-2/

If someone recognizes the caterpillar

Protoschinia scutosa or H. armigera

This post was edited by Zhuk - 12.09.2018 22: 31

Protoschinia scutosa or H. armigera

I just came to the conclusion that this is armigera, of which there are a lot of them.

It is impossible to determine the tentiria from this photo with accuracy, you need to see the pleura on the side and the process of the prothorax from below. At first glance, it looks more like T. nomas (elytra slightly wrinkled). If collected, you can take a look. But Taman has both ?The species T. taurica is known to me only from the coastal slopes of Lake Saline (after Strelka), while in the central part it is T. nomas. If possible, please provide the coordinates of the point.

It is impossible to determine the tentiria from this photo with accuracy, you need to see the pleura on the side and the process of the prothorax from below. At first glance, it looks more like T. nomas (elytra slightly wrinkled). If collected, you can take a look. But Taman has both ?The species T. taurica is known to me only from the coastal slopes of Lake Saline (after Strelka), while in the central part it is T. nomas. If possible, please provide the coordinates of the point.

I've collected a few, and I'll check them out in England.
The coordinates (in Google Earth) are: 44; 59N 37;14E

Today's Sukkot:

https://evergestis.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/sukko-2/

In the image of Melanocoryphus tristrami (Douglas & Scott, 1868).

On the image of Melanocoryphus tristrami (Douglas & Scott, 1868).

And why? I looked at the "Fauna of Ukraine" - where tristrami has a red front edge of the pronotum, and albomaculatus has a black one.
An old job, of course. Is there a confusion with the names or something?

And why? I looked at the "Fauna of Ukraine" - where tristrami has a red front edge of the pronotum, and albomaculatus has a black one.
An old job, of course. Is there a confusion with the names or something?

I don't know why it says that

But it's not included in the Insect Detector. parts of the USSR. vol. 1 for M. albomaculatus and M. tristrami it is indicated -- " Trans. edge of prsp. and the entire clavus is black. "

I don't know why it says that

But it's not included in the Insect Detector. parts of the USSR. vol. 1 for M. albomaculatus and M. tristrami it is indicated -- " Trans. edge of prsp. and the entire clavus is black."

Oh how!
Looked green - well, yes, on the black stripes reaching to the front edge of the pronotum, it turns out tristrami.
Thanks!

First, two from Vityazev.
Either Agriphila, or some kind of Pediasia:



And Aspitates ochrearia. There are a lot of them out there:



The rest is chronicles of balcony mercury-quart-lamp light capture.
Hyles livornica:



Schrankia balneorum:



Eublemma ostrina:



I don't know who it is yet. Who found out-enlighten!

First, two from Vityazev.
Either Agriphila, or some kind of Pediasia:

Agriphila geniculea is also similar to Agriphila tolli.

This post was edited by Djon-14.09.2018 16: 13

I was in Sukkot today:

https://evergestis.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/sukko/

I'll ask around about this place tomorrow, but I'm already tired today.

Animal definitions are welcome

The nymph Graphosoma lineatum is actually the nymph Carpocoris sp.

  
I don't know who it is yet. Who found out-enlighten!

Rather, Aporophyla canescens, initially thought that Ammoconia senex, but for the region is not given.

Rather, Aporophyla canescens, initially thought that Ammoconia senex, but for the region is not given.

Well, "not specified for the region" is not an indicator
But it really looks more like Aporophyla canescens!

I arrived today from Abkhazia. I was in the area of a Cold river and a hydrogen sulfide spring that flows into the sea. Tsandripsh-Bagripsh.
There was nothing to photograph. We were struck by large marble wingless crickets that live in basements. Huge "woodlice" with an orange border, the dominance of a marble cop and some green, half the size of the first one. Forest scorpions in tunnels and under old carrion. There aren't many moths, but I've never seen one before. Yesterday I was holding a long-bellied cocoonworm with maroon-brown wings with a white dot on the front. On the mustache - a male. The underparts are gray. I didn't fly well, but somehow I got to the eighth floor. In the evening, beautiful four-point Bears fly. The great joy of the discoverer (because I had never read about it before) got when I stirred up a rotten stump and ran into a nest of termites. considered not only workers, but also soldiers. And I've been seeing winged males in the sea and on beaches for several years now. The queen could not be reached.
Of the daytime butterflies, I only saw a lot of admirals, burdock, and a large mother-of-pearl, probably pandora...
From beetles - only dead ladybirds of unknown nationality, one staphylin of banal appearance on the shore and the dominance of elm leaf eaters (!).
sausage and meatballs in traps were immediately devoured by hedgehogs, rats and ants. Sadness. It hasn't rained in a while.
I must admit that I am very blind, especially in my right eye. Enrages.
Under the stones, in addition to small ants, there are only small thickish dark brown cockroaches of centimeter size. I doubt something that is Blatta orientalis...
Mantises are much smaller than under the Sochas. There are no mosquitoes. "Ordinary" crickets are singing in the evenings. You can't hear the green grasshoppers. There are interesting locusts-gray with longitudinal stripes; medium size.
In general , there was a catastrophic lack of time and optics. All evil comes from women. I was also struck by the fact that I never noticed scabies and soot fungus.
From the dragonflies, a skinny Anax imperator flew into the light; and males of Libellula depressa hovered over a weakly hydrogen sulfide source.
The forest is very dry. In the litter, under the rocks, even near the river - not a single beetle.!!!

I arrived today from Abkhazia. I was in the area of Kholodnaya Rechka

On the Cold river boxwood devoured all or something left?

On the Cold river boxwood devoured all or something left?

Not a single bush or tree. In any case, I saw several skeletons covered with moss on the steep slopes. I looked closely at the bark to make sure, but I didn't see it clearly, because it was almost invisible + it was slippery, and it was getting late.
I was struck by the fact that the horse chestnuts near the rest house were completely bare, except for a new, puny growth. In any case, the Ohrid miner is MUCH less bloodthirsty at the KMV.
It is also interesting that of the eight old date palms on the facade, only four are still alive. But everything around is smothered by Pueraria dolchata. By the way - its flowers smell filling and fragrant there now. And somewhere I read that a decoction of them has a slightly narcotic effect...
On the rocks gathered seeds kritmuma sea. Exotic spice. Maybe on Travertine Hot I have, and introduced ?..
I repeat that the place is very dry (air humidity), which is unique, and it was not chosen for Stalin's dacha by chance.

Maybe someone can tell me (there are no photos) the name of these huge marble "cave-basement" crickets, what I saw there? Interestingly, in the upper reaches of the Tsanyk River (a tributary of the Matsesta River), they were even larger. But it was very humid.

Maybe someone can tell me (there are no photos) the name of these huge marble "cave-basement" crickets, what I saw there? Interestingly, in the upper reaches of the Tsanyk River (a tributary of the Matsesta River), they were even larger. But it was very humid.

Here is a piece of some kind-either the Chinese Tachycines asynamora, long known from Europe (and described from St. Petersburg), or the local Dolichopoda euxina began to adapt to Homo sapiens. You need to watch.

Here is a piece of some kind-either the Chinese Tachycines asynamora, long known from Europe (and described from St. Petersburg), or the local Dolichopoda euxina began to adapt to Homo sapiens. You need to watch.

Definitely not the first, but not the second ("Caucasian caveman"), although it is similar... In any case, mine were all without ovipositors (males or something?), and not striped, but marbled. And my sawyere was much shorter. Strange, and already really interesting...
If I get to the dacha in the village of Verkhovskoye 43.620719, 39.807219 (they live there, as well as in the Abkhazian adits), I'll take a picture at least somehow and send it.

Definitely not the first, but not the second ("Caucasian caveman"), although it is similar... In any case, mine were all without ovipositors (males or something?), and not striped, but marbled. And my sawyere was much shorter. Strange, and already really interesting...
If I get to the dacha in the village of Verkhovskoye 43.620719, 39.807219 (they live there, as well as in the Abkhazian adits), I'll take a picture at least somehow and send it.

Gryllomorpha dalmatina?

Gryllomorpha dalmatina?

Yes , that's it! Very interesting!... It's a pity that I can't read about it, because it seems that the virus is running on someone else's computer...

I would also very much like to know the kind of termite that lives here in Sochi (before and at the beginning of Abkhazia), and about which I have never heard anything at all, for some reason...

And today, on the railway tracks in Dagomys, I noticed a large, unprecedented on the KMV, marigold from the underside... It looks a bit like Chazara briseis, but since that (it turns out) SO highly variable that I'm not at all sure now...

Yes , that's it! Very interesting!... It's a pity that I can't read about it, because it seems that the virus is running on someone else's computer...

I would also very much like to know the kind of termite that lives here in Sochi (before and at the beginning of Abkhazia), and about which I have never heard anything at all, for some reason...

Reticulitermes lucifugus

During the autumn holidays, I'm going to Tuapse.What interesting straight-winged birds are found there?

I shone a light in the vicinity of Lazarevsky on 11.07.2018, 18 pieces of Hyles vespertilio (Esper, 1780) arrived!!!

Pictures:

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I was in mid-September in Abkhazia between Tsandripsh and Gagripsh. (There's no Internet at home , so I'll be brief.)
The termites struck (Here it was identified as Reticulitermes lucifugus, not Reticulitermes lucifugus; in any case, I saw winged individuals on the beach in Dagomys without a yellow stripe on the pronotum, which means most likely the first species, although it can be anything. In any case, there were no winged birds in the rotten stump) and Dalmatian crickets.
I also caught a glimpse of a Briseis under the Clouds, I think... but I couldn't take a picture and see it.
And the first beetles (with the exception of fireflies and ladybirds) - some small black ground beetles under lanterns-appeared only after the rains in early October.

Dear colleagues!
In my folder on yandex. disk,
which contains reports on all expeditions and hikes https://yadi.sk/d/iezKYQ_V3WCDRi
a special new folder has been added:

"ARCHIVE of expeditions, hikes (photos, videos)"
https://yadi.sk/d/oPI2-rUd_Wtmjg
- which contains folders with reports on previous years ' expeditions and hikes.

I will gradually add all available materials up to 2017 to this "Archive".
If you have time, please log in periodically:
we present photographic and video materials that can be interesting for specialists of various specialties:
botanists, zoologists, entomologists, geographers, geologists, and others.

At the moment, it includes material on the east of the Stavropol Territory and a little Dagestan (Chechen Island) (2002) and Kislovodsk (2012).

If you have any questions or requests, please email me at:
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Sincerely yours