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Plebejus chrystophi (Staudinger, 1874) group in the Mongolian Altai: a: anikini sp. n., P, holotype (upperside) (ZISP), b: anikini sp. n., P, holotype (underside), c: anikini sp. n., O, paratype (upperside) (ZISP), d: anikini sp. n., O, paratype (underside), e: germani sp. n., P, holotype (upperside) (ZISP), f: germani sp. n., P, holotype (underside), g: germani sp. n., O, paratype (upperside) (ZISP), h: germani sp. n., O, paratype (underside).
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A checklist of Papilionoidea of the Mongolian Altai is presented. Several new taxa {Neolycaena sapozhnikovi sp. n., Plebejus germani sp. n., P anikini sp. n., P. idas shadzgat ssp. n., Erebia przhevalskii sp. n., E. chastilovi nómada ssp. n., Hyponephele lycaon dmitrievae ssp. n., and H. lycaon kerzhneri ssp. n.) are described. Zoogeographical dema...
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... The inclusion of the Dzungarian Gobi territory into the range of ssp. centralis (sensu Nazari et al. 2023) was based on one female found by R. Yakovlev on the mountain Uvkhod-Ula (Nazari et al. 2023: 40 (Yakovlev 2012(Yakovlev , 2015Yakovlev et al. 2015), however, in such cases we are talking about arid species. In the case of machaon, the material is clearly not enough to resolve the issue. ...
Citation: Churkin SV, Yakovlev RV, Odbayar T (2024) A new subspecies of Papilio machaon Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) from Gobi desert, Mongolia. Acta Biologica Sibirica 10: 383-393. https://doi. Abstract A new subspecies, Papilio machaon bilguun ssp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) from Mongolia, South Gobi (Umnegov) aimak, Nomgon somon is described. The characters of new and neighbouring subspecies are discussed. A hypothesis about the relations and distribution of different taxa is proposed.
... Biger Somon), its relations with previously known taxa were discussed, including P. i. boreas Balint, 1989 (type locality: Mongolia, Gurvan-Saikhan Mts.). Later, two new taxa were added: P. i. belchir Churkin & Yakovlev, 2005 (type locality: Mongolia, Mongolian Altai, 10 km N Khara-Belchir-Daba pass) and P. i. shadzgat Yakovlev, 2012 (type locality: W. Mongolia, SW Mongolian Altai, Bulgan-Gol basin, Shadzgat-Nuruu Mountains). Additionally, P. i. sailjugemicus Zhdanko & Samodurov in Zhdanko, 1999 (type locality: Russia, SE Altai, Kosh-Agach distr., Sailjugem Mountains, Dzhumaly river) populates northern (at least, north-eastern) neighbouring part of Mongolian Altai. ...
... Additionally, P. i. sailjugemicus Zhdanko & Samodurov in Zhdanko, 1999 (type locality: Russia, SE Altai, Kosh-Agach distr., Sailjugem Mountains, Dzhumaly river) populates northern (at least, north-eastern) neighbouring part of Mongolian Altai. Mongolian Altai has a very complicated biogeographical structure (Kamelin 2005;Yakovlev 2012). Its fauna was not sufficiently studied in the past (Korshunov & Soljanikov 1976;Korshunov 1977), and the recently published book does not includes important information or photos (Tshikolovets et al. 2009), while the expeditions results in serious discoveries (Churkin & Kolesnichenko 2019 a, b, c, d;Churkin et al. 2019). ...
... Almost certainly endemic to the Arshantyn-Nuruu Mountains, which are a separate (though very small in area) zookhoron (Yakovlev 2012). The distance between the type localities arshantyn and shadzgat is only 50 km, they are located in the basin of one river (Bulgan-Gola), but the difference in color is sharply expressed. ...
The article includes the descriptions of two new taxa of Plebejus idas (Linnaeus, 1761) from Mongolia: ssp. baitag ssp. nova (SW Mongolia, Baitag Mts.) and ssp. arshantyn ssp. nova (SW Mongolia, Mongolian Altai, Arshantyn Mts.). The relations with other Mongolian taxa are discussed, including the situation with P. i. saldaitisi Churkin et Zhdanko, 2003.
... Lyela myops (Staudinger, 1881) is a representative of the oligotypic Asian butterfly genus Lyela Swinhoe, 1908(Heads et al. 2023. The range of the genus is limited to the countries of Central Asia, as well as Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, northwestern China and western Mongolia (Leestmans & Karbalaye 1998;Yakovlev 2012;Heads et al. 2023). Butterflies of the genus are superficially similar to species of the genus Erebia Dalman, 1816 and have long been considered as a group close to Erebia (e.g. ...
... Lyela myops is a widespread Central Asian species, whose range covers most of Kazakhstan (with the exception of the northern part), Uzbekistan, western Kyrgyzstan, southern Turkmenistan and northeastern Iran (Lukhtanov & Lukhtanov 1994;Leestmans & Karbalaye 1998;Yakovlev 2012). In the west, the species distribution range reaches the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea (Tshikolovets et al. 2016), in the southwest to the Khorasan province in Iran (Tshikolovets et al. 2014). ...
... In the south, the species reaches the border between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, being limited here by the Amu Darya River valley (Tshikolovets 2000). In the east, it reaches southwestern Mongolia (Yakovlev 2012). Without a doubt, the species occurs in northwestern China on the slopes of the mountains surrounding the valleys of the Irtysh and Ili rivers, although the actual material from this region is unknown to the author. ...
The article describes a new subspecies, Lyela myops tashkumirica ssp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) from Tashkumir vic., Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan. The differences between the new taxon and the previously described L. myops myops (Staudinger, 1881) (E Kazakhstan and N Kyrgyzstan), L. myops mangystavica Lukhtanov, 1994 (W Kazakhstan), L. myops babatagi Tshikolovets, [1998] (S Uzbekistan and E Turkmenistan) and L. myops tekkensis (Staudinger, 1886) (NE Iran and SW Turkmenistan) are described in detail.
... The range of pallida occupies first of all the territory of SE Altai and the adjacent portion of Tyva (as a separate zookhoron). We have very similar butterflies collected in the Southern Khangai by the first author in the upper reaches of the Tuin-Gol River, as well as in various parts of the Mongolian Altai (Yakovlev 2012), including the mountains south of Tsetseg and south of Biger at the southeastern edge of the Mongolian Altai at a latitude of 45°25ʹN -this is the southernmost and easternmost point for this species in the Altai Mountains system, as well as for Colias tyche (Böber, 1812), with which they were flying among the thickets of Betula nana L. at the maximum altitudes for these places (3000 m). Perhaps this is the extreme point for the habitat of the dwarf birch. ...
The article describes two new subspecies: Clossiana freija batchimeg ssp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) from the vicinity of Ulan-Bator, Mongolia and C. f. antipodus ssp. nov. from Saur Range, Kazakhstan. The subspecific distinctions including some genitalia features are discussed. The validity of pallida Elwes, 1899 and subspecific status of calais Fruhstorfer, 1917 are confirmed.
... Entomologists from different countries (former Soviet Union, Hungary, Russia etc.) have been studying the insect fauna (including Lepidoptera) of Mongolia for many years. Some groups of Mongolian lepidopterans were studied relatively well, namely Papilionoidea (Tshikolovets et al. 2009;Yakovlev, 2012), Sphingidae (Derzhavets, 1977;Yakovlev et al. 2015), Zygaenidae (Efetov et al. 2012), Cossidae (Yakovlev, 2004, Notodontidae (Morozov et al. 2016;Schintlmeister, 2008) and Pterophoridae (Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2008). Nevertheless, the knowledge about other taxonomic groups (e. g. ...
... The Mongolian Altai is a significant frontier in the distribution of insects: a number of studies have shown that insect fauna of the southwestern (Dzhungarian) slopes of Mongolian Altai differs markedly from those of the northeastern slopes. This conclusion is based on the distribution of Orthoptera (Sergeev, 1986), Coleoptera (Kryzhanovskij, 2002), Lepidoptera (Yakovlev, 2011(Yakovlev, , 2012. The main ridge of the Mongolian Altai divides the biota of the Altai Mountain region into two biological provinces: Altai-Dzhungarian (western) and Western Mongolian (eastern) (Yakovlev, 2012). ...
... This conclusion is based on the distribution of Orthoptera (Sergeev, 1986), Coleoptera (Kryzhanovskij, 2002), Lepidoptera (Yakovlev, 2011(Yakovlev, , 2012. The main ridge of the Mongolian Altai divides the biota of the Altai Mountain region into two biological provinces: Altai-Dzhungarian (western) and Western Mongolian (eastern) (Yakovlev, 2012). ...
An annotated checklist of Geometridae collected in Southwest Mongolia is presented. In total 51 species are recorded. Eight species are recorded as new for the fauna of Mongolia, Alcis depravata (Staudinger, 1892), Holoterpna diagrapharia Püngeler, 1900, Scotopteryx supproximaria (Staudinger, 1892), Cataclysme riguata (Hübner, [1813]), Rhodostrophia crypta Viidalepp & Kostkuk, 2020, Idaea ossiculata (Lederer, 1870), Scopula divisaria (Christoph, 1893), and Casilda consecraria (Staudinger, 1871). Habitus and genitalia are illustrated for these species. Four of them were DNA-barcoded, as well as three other species. Results of DNA barcoding are discussed.
... In this paper, the new species of the genus Macrotarrhus from Mongolia (Khovd Province) is described and illustrated. Arshantyn-Nuruu Ridge which are one of the centers of species richness and endemism in Western Mongolia (Yakovlev 2012(Yakovlev , 2015Yakovlev et al. 2015). This is the third species of the genus found in Khovd Province. ...
A new species, Macrotarrhus (Alexiola) fomichevi Legalov, sp. nov. from Arshantyn-Nuruu Ridge, Dzhungarian Gobi, Khovd Province (Mongolia) is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to M. (A.). hamianus (Suvorov, 1912) from China and differs in the narrower elytra, a pronotum with the greatest width in front of the middle and a sharply narrowed and elongated aedeagus at the apex. A list of species of the genus Macrotarrhus is compiled. A distribution map for this genus is given.
... Lyela in this sense ranges from western Kazakhstan and NE Iran to Balochistan (west Pakistan) and the Altai Mountains of Mongolia ( Fig. 20; Leestmans and Karbalaye, 1998;Korb, 2011Korb, , 2017Yakovlev, 2012;Tshikolovets, 2017;Lang, 2022;Savela, 2022). In the northern part of its range, Lyela overlaps with Coenonympha, but in central Afghanistan and Pakistan it occurs on its own. ...
The butterfly subtribe Coenonymphina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) comprises four main clades found, respectively, in (1) the Solomon Islands, (2) Australasia, (3) NW South America and (4) Laurasia, with a phylogeny: 1 (2 (3 + 4)). In assessing biogeographic evolution in the group we rejected the conversion of fossil-calibrated clade ages to likely maximum clade ages by the imposition of arbitrary priors. Instead, we used biogeographic-tectonic calibration, with fossil-calibrated ages accepted as minima. Previous studies have used this approach to date single nodes (phylogenetic-biogeographic breaks) in a group, but we extended the methodology to date multiple nodes. Within the Coenonymphina as a whole, 14 nodes coincide spatially with ten major tectonic events. In addition, the phylogenetic sequence of these nodes conforms to the chronological sequence of the tectonic events, consistent with a vicariance origin of the clades. Dating of the spatially coincident tectonic features provides a timescale for the vicariance events. The tectonic events are: pre-drift intracontinental rifting between India and Australia (150 Ma); seafloor spreading at the margins of the growing Pacific plate, and between North and South America (140 Ma); magmatism flare-up along the SW Pacific Whitsunday Volcanic Province-Median Batholith (130 Ma); a change from extension in the Clarence basin, eastern Australia, to uplift of the Great Dividing Range (114 Ma); Pamir Mountains uplift, foreland basin dynamics and high eustatic sea-levels leading to marine transgression of the proto-Paratethys Ocean eastward to Central Asia and Xinjiang (100 Ma); predrift rifting and seafloor spreading west of New Caledonia (100-50 Ma); sinistral strike-slip displacement along the proto-Alpine fault, New Zealand (100-80 Ma); thrust faulting in the Longmen Shan and foreland basin dynamics around the Sichuan Basin (85 Ma); pre-drift rifting in the Coral Sea basin (85 Ma); and dextral displacement on the Alpine fault (20 Ma).
... In Western Siberia regularly found during the two last decades, actively moving to East (Yakovlev 1998a;Knyazev and Kosterin 2003;Kosterin et al. 2007;Tshikolovets et al. 2009;Knyazev 2009Knyazev , 2020Rud'ko and Kosterin 2010;Ivonin et al. 2016;Kostyunin and Klyueva 2020 Distribution. Endemic of Altai Mountains (Kosterin 1994;Yakovlev 1998bYakovlev , 2004Yakovlev , 2012Huang et al. 2000;Lukhtanov et al. 2007;Tshikolovets et al. 2009). ...
New localities for six species of plants (Achillea schmakovii, Botrychium lunaria, Cystopteris altajensis, Euphrasia altaica, Agrostis tuvinica and Calamagrostis × thyrsoidea), five species of lichens (Bacidina phacodes, Leptogium burnetiae, Melanelixia albertana, Tuckermannopsis chlorophylla, Tetramelas chlo-roleucus) and nine species of Lepidoptera (Parnassius apollo, Lampides boeticus, Limenitis sydyi, Man-iola jurtina, Erebia kindermanni, Eudia pavonia, Proserpinus proserpina, Macroglossum stellatarum, Catocala elocata) are reported for Altai Territory and Republic of Altai. Lichens Bacidina phacodes, Tuckermannopsis chlorophylla, Tetramelas chloroleucus and Lepidoptera Lampides boeticus, Maniola jurtina, Proserpinus proserpina and Catocala elocata are reported as new for Altai Territory, Macroglos-sum stellatarum and Limenitis sydyi are new for the Republic of Altai. Localities and ecological preferences are indicated for each species.
... The Dalmatian Ringlet (Proterebia phegea (Borkhausen, 1788)) is a typical Asian steppe butterfly species (Bartoňová et al., 2017) with isolated relic occurrences in several southern areas in the Balkan Peninsula (Bartoňová et al., 2018). Its range extends from south-western Mongolian Altai (Yakovlev, 2012) through steppe regions of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, as far as the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine (Tshikolovets et al., 2009;Tshikolovets, 2011;Tshikolovets et al., 2016). It is widespread, but more fragmentarily distributed south of the Caucasus in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran (Tshikolovets & Nekrutenko, 2012;Tshikolovets et al., 2014), reaching central Anatolia in Turkey (Hesselbarth et al., 1995). ...
We provide information on the unexpected discovery of Proterebia phegea in Albania, the fourth distinct distribution area for the species in the Balkan Peninsula. The butterfly was found to be numerous on south-facing slopes at Qafa e Buallit pass in Dibër County. The most striking characteristic of the habitat is the sandy brown ophiolite rocky substrate, compared to limestone areas in other parts of its range. Habitat structure and vegetation are otherwise similar to the more overgrown sites in the Dalmatian part of its range. Given the widespread presence of ophiolite rocks in eastern Albania, the species could be significantly more widespread in the country; however, further surveys are required. Two additional rare species in Albania, Erynnis marloyi and Anthocharis gruneri, were also recorded in the area.
... Ustjuzhanin) worked previously (1999−2018 in western Mongolia in spring and summer, having made 14 expeditions. The main emphasis of the expedition was made on the study of the autumn fauna of Lepidoptera in south-western (Dzhungarian) macroslope of Mongolian Altai and Dzhungarian Gobi, the less studied and very rich in biodiversity southern portions of Hovd and Gobi-Altai Aimaks (Yakovlev 2012a;Yakovlev & Dubatolov 2013a, b). The expedition in which I. Makhov took part, worked in Uvurkhangai, Bayanhongor, and Töw Aimaks. ...
The article provides the list of Macroheterocera (Lepidoptera), collected in Mongolia in two expeditions of Russian entomologists in 2019. The first travel (September 14−24) − Bayan-Ulgii, Khovd, and Gobi-Altai Aimaks; the second travel (June 24-July 5) − Uvurkhangai, Bayanhongor, and Töw Aimaks. 21 species are indicated for the fauna of Mongolia for the first time: Idaea elongaria (Rambur, 1833) (Geometridae), Orgyia dubia (Tauscher, 1806), Thylacigyna antiquoides (Hübner, 1822), Ivela ochropoda (Eversmann, 1847), Catocala deducta Eversmann, 1843, C. desiderata Staudinger, 1888, C. neglecta Staudinger, 1888, (Püngeler, 1906), Autophila vespertalis (Staudinger, 1896) (Erebidae), Acronicta tridens ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), Caradrina expansa Alphéraky, 1887, C. inopinata Hacker, 2004, Polymixis atossa (Wiltshire, 1941), P. rosinae (Bohatsch, 1908), Dasypolia maria Volynkin, 2012, Pseudohadena argyllostigma (Varga & L.Ronkay, 1991), Ctenoceratoda turpis (Staudinger, 1900), Mythimna l-album (Linnaeus, 1767), M. vitellina (Hübner, 1808), Dichagyris flammatra ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), Agrotis psammocharis Boursin, 1950, Eugnorisma atrabaelbops Varga, 1975 (Noctuidae).
