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Table of Contents of all volumes since 1986 including
Special Issues
Volume
66, Issue 4 (2020)
Aves
Habitat modelling
reveals extreme habitat fragmentation in the endangered and declining Asir
Magpie, Pica asirensis, Saudi Arabia’s only endemic bird (Aves:
Passeriformes)
Christopher
R. J. Boland and Bruce O. Burwell 283
Reptilia
Morphometric
and molecular differentiation between Egyptian Stellagama stellio vulgaris
and S. stellio salehi (Reptilia: Agamidae)
Mohamed
A. M. Kadry, Abdulaziz R. Al-Qahtani and Sayed A. M. Amer 295
Osteichthyes
Genetic
differentiation of non-native populations of Gibel Carp, Carassius gibelio
in Western Turkey by ISSR and SRAP markers
Sevan
Ağdamar, Ömür Baysal, Ayşegül Yıldız and Ali Serhan Tarkan 302
Possible
link between the structure of otoliths and amphibious mode of life of three
mudskipper species (Teleostei: Gobioidei) from the Persian Gulf
Mehdi
Ghanbarifardi, Carolin Gut, Zeinab Gholami, Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Christoph
Gierl and Bettina Reichenbacher 311
Crustacea
Validation
of Palaemon audouini Heller, 1861 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae),
an overlooked species from the Red Sea
Sammy De
Grave and Christopher W. Ashelby 321
Some like
it hot: Phallocryptus fahimii sp. n. (Crustacea: Anostraca:
Thamnocephalidae) from the Lut desert, the hottest place on Earth
Martin Schwentner, Alexander V.
Rudov and Hossein Rajaei 331
Hexapoda
A new
micropterous species of the genus Sunius Stephens, 1829 from Central
Anatolia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
Sinan
Anlaş 342
Morphometry
and colony structure of ants of the genus Cardiocondyla (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae) from Georgia
Nana Gratiashvili, Lena Kuschel
and Jürgen Heinze 347
Contribution
to the knowledge of the genus Ceratanisus Gemminger, 1870 (Coleoptera:
Tenebrionidae) with description of a new species from Turkey
Maxim
Nabozhenko and Erol Yıldırım 357
Phragmataecia
effendii sp. n., a new species of carpenter-moth from Azerbaijan (Lepidoptera:
Cossidae)
Roman V.
Yakovlev and Nataly Yu. Snegovaya 363
Discovery
of a new Cubiandrena species in Turkey (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)
Thomas
James Wood 367
Short Communications
Perisomena
caecigena (Kupido, 1825) in Sulaymaniyah, a saturniid moth new to Iraq
(Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)
Farhad A.
Khudhur and Soran H. Ahmed
375
Volume
66, Issue 3 (2020)
Reptilia
Age
structure of a population of Chalcides
ocellatus (Forskål, 1775) (Sauria: Scincidae) in Mediterranean Anatolia
Ahmet Mermer, Meltem Kumaş, Hasan Serdar Mutlu and Kerim
Çiçek 189
The past,
current and future habitat range of the Spider-tailed Viper, Pseudocerastes urarachnoides (Serpentes:
Viperidae) in western Iran and eastern Iraq as revealed by habitat modelling
Behzad Fathinia, Dennis Rödder, Nasrullah
Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Mahboubeh Sadat Hosseinzadeh and
Seyed Mahdi Kazemi
197
Osteichthyes
Phylogeography
of the genus Chondrostoma Agassiz,
1835 (Teleostei: Leuciscidae) in Anatolia, as inferred from mitochondrial DNA
analysis
Yılmaz Çiftci, Ayşe Gül Mutlu,
Salim Serkan Güçlü, Davut Turan and Fahrettin Küçük 206
Reproductive
biology of the Short-snouted Seahorse, Hippocampus
hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Eastern Black Sea of Turkey
(Osteichthyes: Syngnathidae)
Burcu Taylan, Şule Gürkan and Ertan
Taşkavak
222
Hexapoda
A new
species of Cynips (Cynipidae:
Cynipini) from Turkey
Musa Azmaz and Yusuf
Katılmış 232
A new
species of Xerobion Nevsky
(Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Iran
Shalva Barjadze and Nana Gratiashvili 240
Distribution
and activity period of the invasive Orosanga
japonica (Melichar, 1898) (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae) in Turkey
Ahmet Karataş, Ayşegül
Karataş, Nizamettin Yavuz and Murat Genç 246
Review of
the Middle Eastern species of Sphecapatodes
Villeneuve, 1912 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) with the description of a new species
Yuriy Verves, Liudmyla Khrokalo and Olena
Naumovska 253
Description
of a remarkable new Andrena species
(Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) from Syria
Thomas James Wood 262
Arachnida
Genetic
diversity within Leiurus quinquestriatus
(Scorpiones: Buthidae) populations in Egypt as inferred from 16S mDNA sequence
analysis
Moustafa Sarhan, Ahmed Badry, Mahmoud
Younes and Mostafa Saleh
269
Short Communications
Communal
hibernation of Echis coloratus Günther,
1878 in Jordan
Mohammad Al-Saraireh, Mohammad A. Abu
Baker and Zuhair S. Amr 277
Observation
of early mating behaviour in a sub-adult Leopard (Panthera pardus) in Iran
Bahador Arasteh, Shahrzad Rahmati, Kambiz
Baradarani and Ehsan M. Moqanaki 279
Volume
66, Issue 2 (2020)
Mammalia
Modelling the effect of competition for prey and
poaching on the population of the Arabian Leopard, Panthera pardus nimr, in Saudi Arabia (Mammalia: Felidae)
M. Zafar-ul
Islam, Rebbeka Volmer, Ahmed al Boug, Abdullah as Shehri and Alexander
Gavashelishvili 95
Potential impact of climate change on the distribution
of the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) in Iran (Mammalia: Felidae)
Taghi
Mahdavi, Bahman Shams-Esfandabad, Hamid Toranjzar, Nourollah Abdi and Abbas
Ahmadi 107
Reptilia
Discovery of the Black-headed Ground Snake Rhynchocalamus
melanocephalus (Jan, 1862) in Cyprus (Reptilia: Colubridae)
Karin Tamar, Hans Jörg Wiedl, Erez
Maza, Daniel Jablonski and Shai Meiri
118
Osteichthyes
New records of Plotosus japonicus in the Red
Sea and genetic indications for its presence throughout the Indo-Pacific
(Osteichthyes: Plotosidae)
Menachem Goren, Nir Stern and
Ariel Diamant 124
Crustacea
Revisiting the population of the Ghost Crab, Ocypode cursor, on the sandy beaches of
northern Cyprus after two decades: are there causes for concern?
Dilber
Barakalı, Jake L. Snaddon and Robin T. E. Snape 132
Mollusca
Pseudamnicola
thalesi sp. n. (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea:
Hydrobiidae), a new freshwater gastropod species from Western Turkey
Deniz Anıl Odabaşı, Enis Akay and
Serdar Koyuncuoğlu 140
Hexapoda
Variation in Eoanthidium
judaeense (Mavromoustakis, 1945) and E.
clypeare (Morawitz, 1874) (Apoidea: Megachilidae: Anthidiini) in the Middle
East: semispecies or cases of geographic dimorphism?
Max
Kasparek
145
Two new species of Elathous
Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Syria
Tamás
Németh, Alexander S. Prosvirov and Robin Kundrata 167
Arachnida
Interspecific phylogenetic relationship among
different species of the genus Buthacus (Scorpiones: Buthidae) inferred
from 16S rRNA in Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Abdulaziz
R. Alqahtani and Ahmed Badry 178
Short Communication
Breeding of the Osprey, Pandion haliaetus, in
natural and artificial nesting substrates in the United Arab Emirates (Aves:
Accipitriformes)
Bilal
Kabeer, Sadaf Bilal, Sadia Abid, Pavla Hejcmanová, Muhammad Arslan
Asadi, Muhammad Jawad Jilani and Abid Mehmood 186
Volume
66, Issue 1 (2020)
Mammalia
Genetic diversity and structure of the Great Gerbil, Rhombomys opimus, in Iran (Mammalia:
Rodentia)
Mohsen Ahmadpour,
Hossein Varasteh Moradi, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Mohammad Ali Oshaghi, Paul Hapeman
and Abasalt Hosseinzadeh Colagar - 1
Reptilia
Molecular phylogeny of the Arabian Horned Viper, Cerastes gasperettii (Serpentes:
Viperidae) in the Middle East
Albert Carné,
Behzad Fathinia and Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani - 13
Reproductive biology of the Nile Soft-Shell Turtle, Trionyx triunguis, at the Seyhan River, Turkey (Testudines: Trionychidae)
Can
Yılmaz, Ayşe Oruç, Ebru Çelik and Oğuz Türkozan - 21
Osteichthyes
The Long-snout Freshwater Goby Awaous jayakari
(Boulenger, 1888) (Teleostei: Gobiidae), an additional fish element for the
Iranian waters
Hamid Reza
Esmaeili, Reza Sadeghi and Helen K. Larson - 29
Crustacea
A new species of the genus Pseudostrandesia (Ostracoda: Crustacea) and first report of the
genus from Palaearctic region
Okan
Külköylüoğlu, Mehmet Yavuzatmaca and Ozan Yılmaz - 37
Hexapoda
A new species of Oligoglena
Horváth, 1912 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Mediterranean Turkey
Abbas Mol
- 46
A new species of Obtusicauda
(Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Iran living on Artemisia
Neda
Sedighi, Mojtaba Hosseini and Mohsen Mehrparvar - 58
Review of the Middle Eastern species of Dolichotachina
Villeneuve, 1913 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae, Miltogramminae) with the description
of a new species
Yuriy
Verves, Liudmila Khrokalo and Olha Panchuk - 68
Arachnida
Taxonomy of the genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with description of a new species
from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae)
Vivian M.
Montemor, Rick C. West, Alireza Zamani, Majid Moradmand, Volker V. Wirth, Ingo
Wendt, Siegfried Huber and José Paulo L. Guadanucci - 76
Short Communications
Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus recorded
at the Turkish Black Sea coast for the first time
Ömral Ü.
Özkoç, Deniz Oğuz, Can Nacar, Kiraz Erciyas-Yavuz and Y. Sancar
Barış - 91
Volume
65, Issue 4 (2019)
Mammalia
Inter-dependent movements of Asiatic
Cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus venaticus
and a Persian Leopard Panthera pardus
saxicolor in a desert environment in Iran (Mammalia: Felidae)
Farid
Cheraghi, Mahmoud Reza Delavar, Farshad Amiraslani, Kazem Alavipanah, Eliezer
Gurarie, Houman Jowkar, Luke Hunter, Stephane Ostrowski and William
F. Fagan – 283
Phylogeographic analysis of Iranian wildcats (Felis
lybica / Felis silvestris) as revealed by mitochondrial cytochrome b
gene
Marzieh
Mousavi, Hamid Reza Rezaei and Saeid Naderi - 293
Aves
What caused the strong increase of the winter
population of the Dalmatian Pelican, Pelecanus crispus, in Iran in the
last two decades?
Abbas
Ashoori, Hamid Amini, Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh, Aris Manolopoulos and
Giorgos Catsadorakis - 307
Reptilia
A new species of Eirenis (Ophidia: Colubridae)
from highland habitats in southern Iran
Behzad
Fathinia, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani and Arya Shafaeipour - 319
Osteichthyes
Knipowitschia
ephesi Ahnelt, 1995, a junior synonym of Gobius ricasolii Di Caporiacco, 1935
(Teleostei: Gobiidae)
Erdoğan
Çiçek, Ronald Fricke, Soheil Eagderi, Sevil Sungur and
Stefano Vanni - 330
Crustacea
A new species of the genus Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae) from the south-western
part of the North Caucasus
Ivan Marin
and Dmitry Palatov - 336
Hexapoda
Expanding the Anagyrus
pseudococci species complex (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae): a new species
emerges from Trabutina serpentina (Hemiptera:
Pseudococcidae) on tamarisk on the Dead Sea shore
Sharon A.
Andreason, Serguei V. Triapitsyn, Zvi Mendel, Alexei Protasov, Ben Levi and
Thomas M. Perring - 347
Diving beetles of the genus Yola Gozis, 1886 from Oman, with description of a new species
(Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
Jiří
Hájek and Antonín Reiter - 361
Description of a new species of Lithostege
Hübner, 1825 and of the male of L. samandooki (Rajaei, 2011)
(Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Iran
Hossein
Rajaei, Saeideh Shahreyari-Nejad and Mehdi Esfandiari - 367
Volume
65, Issue 3 (2019)
Mammalia
Limiting
factors of Striped Hyaena, Hyaena hyaena,
distribution and densities across climatic and geographical gradients
(Mammalia: Carnivora)
Hila Shamoon and Idan Shapira - 189
Aves
Confirmation
of Acrocephalus scirpaceus avicenniae
(Aves: Acrocephalidae) from mangroves on the Red Sea coast near Jazan,
southwest Saudi Arabia
Jem Babbington, Christopher Boland, Guy M.
Kirwan, Abdullah Alsuhaibany, Hadoram Shirihai and Manuel Schweizer
- 201
Reptilia
The
species identity and biogeography of Blanus
(Amphisbaenia: Blanidae) in Lebanon
Daniel Jablonski and Riyad A. Sadek- 208
Osteichthyes
The
occurrence of two xanthochromic fish, Epiniphelus
marginatus (Serranidae) and Diplodus vulgaris (Sparidae) (Osteichthyes) in the eastern Mediterranean
Daniel Golani, Maria Corsini-Foka and
Yaron Tikochinski - 215
Taxonomic
status of the loaches Paracobitis vignai
and P. rhadinaea (Teleostei:
Nemacheilidae) in Iran
Golnaz Sayyadzadeh, Hamid Reza Esmaeili
and Soheil Eagderi - 221
Hexapoda
A new
species of Polydrusus (Polydrusus) Germar
(Coleoptera:Curculionidae) from the Kurdistan region of Iraq
Halgurd Rashed Ismael Akrawi and Talal
Tahir Mahmoud - 230
New
record of the butterfly Euchrysops cnejus
(Fabricius) from Oman, with notes about phylogeographic patterns of E. cnejus and E. osiris (Hopffer) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
Zdenek Faltynek Fric, Lukas Besta,
Vladimir Hula, Pavel Vrba, Meenakshi Irungbam, Jatishwor Irungbam, Nikolai
Ignatev and Jana Maresova - 236
Population
genetic structure and phylogeography of the oak gall wasp Andricus chodjaii (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in Turkey as inferred
from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences
Serap Mutun, Serdar Dinç and Erhan Çimen - 245
Two new
species of Campopleginae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Iran
Matthias Riedel, Abbas
Mohammadi-Khoramabadi and Mohammad Khayrandish - 256
Arachnida
Zercon kadiri sp. n.,
a new oligophagous mite from Eastern Anatolia (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae)
Mehmet Karaca - 261
Description
of a new pseudoscorpion species of the genus Amblyolpium Simon (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypinidae) from
north-western Iran
Mahrad Nassirkhani and Mojtaba Mohammad
Doustaresharaf - 268
A survey
of running crab spiders (Araneae: Philodromidae) in Iran
Maryam Torabi, Majid Moradmand and
Christoph Muster - 274
Short
Communication
Confirmed
sightings of the Killer Whale, Orcinus
orca, in Iranian waters (Mammalia: Cetacea)
Nazanin Mohsenian, Hamed Moshiri, Amin
Tollab, Hamid Reza Bargahi, Gill T. Braulik, Georgina L Gemmell and Tim
Collins- 280
Volume
65, Issue 2 (2019)
Mammalia
Geographic
distribution patterns of melanistic Arabian Wolves, Canis lupus arabs (Pocock), in Saudi Arabia
(Mammalia: Carnivora)
M. Zafar-ul Islam, Ahmed Boug, Abdullah
Shehri and Lucas Gonçalves da Silva - 95
Low
genetic diversity in the vulnerable Goitred Gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa
(Cetartiodactyla: Bovidae), in Iran: potential genetic consequence of recent
population declines
Rasoul Khosravi, Mansoureh Malekian,
Mahmoud-Reza Hemami, Teresa Luísa Silva and José Carlos Brito - 104
Aves
Hope for
the White-headed Duck, Oxyura leucocephala (Aves: Anatidae) in Turkey despite a declining
breeding population and abandonment of its traditional wintering area?
Arzu Gürsoy-Ergen - 116
Osteichthyes
Mitochondrial
phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Gobio
(Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Turkey
Ismail Aksu and Yusuf Bektaş - 128
Taxonomic
status of the Mediterranean-endemic goby Pomatoschistus
adriaticus Miller, 1973 inferred with
both morphological and genetic data
Dilruba Seyhan Öztürk and Semih Engin - 142
Hexapoda
Two new
species of Hedychrum Latreille from
the Middle East and Pakistan
(Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)
Paolo Rosa - 151
Biology,
ecology and distribution of the Date Stone Beetle, Coccotrypes dactyliperda (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Dirk H. R. Spennemann - 163
Short
Communications
The
invasive sea urchin Diadema setosum provides shelter for coastal
fish – first observations from the Mediterranean Sea
Murat Bilecenoğlu, Mehmet Baki
Yokeş and Murat Draman - 183
A newly
identified breeding site in the Aegean Sea and a status update for Audouin’s
Gull Larus audouinii in Turkey (Aves:
Laridae)
Ortaç Onmuş and Onur Gönülal - 186
Volume
65, Issue 1 (2019)
Ecology
The hypogean invertebrate fauna of Georgia (Caucasus)
Shalva Barjadze, Zezva Asanidze, Alexander
Gavashelishvili and Felipe N. Soto-Adames – 1
Mammalia
Seasonal habitat selection and temporal activity
patterns determine the structure of bat assemblages in Dhana Biosphere Reserve,
Jordan (Mammalia: Chiroptera)
Omar A. Abed, Mohammad A. Abu Baker and
Zuhair S. Amr – 11
Differences in shape and size of skull and mandible in
Talpa species (Mammalia:
Eulipotyphla) from Turkey
Ahmet Yesari Selçuk, Alaettin Kaya and
Haluk Kefelioğlu – 20
Reptilia
Daily movements and home range of Eastern Hermann’s
Tortoise, Testudo hermanni boettgeri
(Reptilia: Testudines)
Oguz Türkozan, Sezgin Karaman, Can
Yılmaz and Celal Ülger – 28
Osteichthyes
and Chondrichthyes
Year-Round Aggregation of Sandbar Shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827), in
Boncuk Cove in the southern Aegean Sea, Turkey (Carcharhiniformes:
Carcharhinidae)
Halit Filiz – 35
Community structure of the deep sea fishes in the
northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea (Osteichthyes and Chondrichthyes)
Maroof A. Khalaf, Shorouq S. Ma’ayta,
Mohammad A. Wahsha, Riyad S. Manasrah and Tariq H. Al-Najjar– 40
The taxonomic status of an introduced freshwater goby
of the genus Rhinogobius to Iran
(Teleostei: Gobiidae)
Reza Sadeghi, Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Fatah
Zarei, Amirhossein Esmaeili and Keivan Abbasi– 51
Mollusca
A new genus and two new species of freshwater
Gastropoda from the Ceyhan River Basin in the eastern Mediterranean (Mollusca:
Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea)
Mustafa Emre Gürlek – 59
Hexapoda
A new hypogean species of the genus Domene Fauvel, 1873 from Turkey
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
Sinan Anlaş – 66
Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Ardabil
province in Iran, with description of a new species of Megaselia Rondani
Roya Namaki Khameneh, Samad Khaghaninia
and R. Henry L. Disney – 70
New data on plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)
of Oman
Peter Ustjuzhanin, Vasily Kovtunovich,
Aidas Saldaitis and Anna Ustjuzhanina –
75
Arachnida
The flattie spider family Selenopidae (Araneae) in the
Middle East
Alireza Zamani and Sarah C. Crews – 79
Short
Communications
Leopard (Panthera
pardus) reoccupying its historic
range in the South Caucasus: a first evidence (Mammalia: Felidae)
Elshad Askerov, Tariel Talibov, Karen
Manvelyan, Nugzar Zazanashvili, Parviz Fatullayev and Alexander Malkhasyan – 88
New records of the Iranian Vole, Microtus irani Thomas,
1921, from eastern Turkey (Mammalia: Rodentia)
Sadık Demirtaş and Ali Tümay
Gürler – 92
Volume
64, Issue 4 (2018)
Ecology
Review of the vertebrate-mediated dispersal of the
Date Palm, Phoenix dactylifera
Dirk H. R. Spennemann – 283
Aves
The spread of the Rose-ringed Parakeet, Psittacula krameri, in Turkey between
1975 and 2015 (Aves: Psittacidae)
Esra Per –297
Amphibia
Molecular and morphological evidence for a new
subspecies of Fazila’s Lycian Salamander Lyciasalamandra
fazilae in South-west Anatolia
Bayram Göçmen, Sarah Ehl, Mert
Karış, Burkhard Thiesmeier and Thomas Kordges – 304
Osteichthyes
A new Chondrostoma
species from the Büyük Menderes River Basin, Turkey (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Salim Serkan Güçlü, Fahrettin Küçük,
Davut Turan, Yılmaz Çiftçi and Ayşe Gül Mutlu – 315
Hexapoda
A new species of Maladera
Mulsant & Rey, 1871 from Iran (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini) and a
review of the distribution of the genus in Iran
Silvia Fabrizi, Eckehard Rößner and Dirk
Ahrens – 322
A new species of Anagyrus
(Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from Iran, parasitoid of Planococcus ficus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on Vitis vinifera
George Japoshvili and Majid Fallahzadeh
– 340
Trichopsomyia
ochrozona (Stackelberg, 1952) (Diptera: Syrphidae)
recorded from Iran for the first time with a key to the West Palaearctic Trichopsomyia Williston, 1888 species
Jeroen van Steenis, Babak Gharali, Theo
Zeegers and Hussein Sadeghi Namaghi – 345
Dyspessa
peri (Lepidoptera: Cossidae), a new species of
Cossidae from Afghanistan
Roman V. Yakovlev and Helen Alipanah –
360
Arachnida
A new species and new distribution records of Zercon C. L. Koch from Iran (Acari:
Zerconidae)
Mohammadreza Kavianpour, Mehmet Karaca,
Younes Karimpour and Raşit Urhan – 363
New data on spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraq
Alexander A. Fomichev, Yuri M. Marusik and Seppo Koponen – 329
Short
Communications
Record of the Yellowback Grunt Pomadasys aheneus McKay & Randall (Osteichthyes: Haemulidae) from the Arabian
Gulf off Iraq
Atheer H. Ali and Yukio Iwatsuki – 371
The Black Bordered Arab, Colotis ungemachi (Le Cerf, 1922) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in the
Middle East, and the first confirmed record for Ethiopia
Vazrick Nazari and Peter Merrett – 374
Volume
64, Issue 3 (2018)
Mammalia
Intraspecific killing among Leopards (Panthera pardus) in Iran (Mammalia: Felidae)
Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Hossein
Alinezhad, Ehsan Hadipour, Iman Memarian, Stephane Ostrowski, Kaveh Hobeali,
Amirhossein Dadashi-Jourdehi, Paul J.
Johnson, David W. Macdonald and Luke T. B. Hunter – 189
Melanism and coat colour polymorphism in the Egyptian
Wolf Canis lupaster Hemprich &
Ehrenberg (Carnivora: Canidae) from Egypt
Mostafa Saleh, Mahmoud Younes, Moustafa
Sarhan and Fouad Abdel-Hamid – 195
Osteichthyes
Phylogeography of Walton’s Mudskipper, Periophthalmus waltoni Koumans, 1941
(Perciformes: Gobiidae), from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman
Mehdi Ghanbarifardi, Mansour Aliabadian
and Hamid Reza Esmaeili – 207
The scale characteristics of two Aphanius species from southern Iran (Teleostei: Aphaniidae)
Azad Teimori – 219
Hexapoda
Floral preferences of hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae)
in response to the abundance and species richness of flowering plants
Mohammad-Reza Babaei, Seyed Ali Asghar Fathi,
Ebrahim Gilasian and Hassan Barimani Varandi – 228
Two new species of Torymidae (Hymenoptera:
Chalcidoidea) reared from flower heads of Echinops
orientalis Trautvetter in
south-eastern Turkey
Mikdat Doğanlar and M. Murat Aslan
– 238
A new species of the genus Chrysotoxum Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Turkey
Zorica Nedeljković, Ante
Vujić, Rüstem Hayat, Ljiljana Šašić Zorić
and Mihajla Đan – 244
A new species of Rhytimorpha
Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Israel
Donald L. J. Quicke, Frank Koch, Gavin
R. Broad, Andrew M. R. Bennett, Simon van Noort, Paul D. N. Hebert and Buntika
A. Butcher – 253
Two new species of the genus Anisobas Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ichneumoninae) from
Iran and Uzbekistan
Matthias Riedel, Farid Shirzadegan and
Ali Asghar Talebi – 262
Taxonomic notes on Drilus
Olivier, 1790 (Elateridae: Agrypninae: Drilini) in Rhodes
Eliška Šormová – 267
The Sarcophagidae (Diptera) of the Middle East
Yury Verves and Lydmyla Khrokalo – 273
Volume
64, Issue 2 (2018)
Aves
The
breeding biology of the White-spectacled Bulbul, Pycnonotus xanthopygos,
at the northwestern edge of its distribution range
Aziz
Aslan, Bekir Kabasakal, Matteo Griggio and Ali Erdoğan
- 95
Osteichthyes
Characteristics
of Capoeta oguzelii, a new species of
cyprinid fish from the Ezine Stream, Black Sea basin, Turkey (Teleostei:
Cyprinidae)
Mahmut Elp, Mustafa İbrahim Osmanoğlu, Ali
Eslem Kadak and Davut Turan 102
The taxonomic
status of the Black Sea and Marmara Sea populations of the Broadnosed Pipefish Syngnathus cf. argentatus Pallas (Teleostei: Syngnathidae) based on morphological
and molecular characters
Adnan Çağlar Oruç and Semih Engin - 112
Mollusca
Molecular
confirmation of the occurrence of Elysia
cf. tomentosa (Mollusca:
Heterobranchia) in the Persian Gulf
Mahshid Oladi, Ali Nasrolahi, Faraham Ahmadzadeh, Omid
Alizadeh and Patrick J. Krug - 124
Hexapoda
Description
of a new species of Hyadaphis
Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Turkey
Shalva Barjadze, and Işil Özdemir - 131
Which
species of the genus Scaurus
Fabricius (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) occurs in the Caucasus and the border
areas of Anatolia?
Maxim
Nabozhenko, Yakov Kovalenko and Mark Kalashian - 137
Further
records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran
Shahrokh Pashaei Rad, Brian Taylor, Roshanak Torabi,
Ebrahim Aram, Giti Abolfathi, Rezvan Afshari, Fatemeh Borjali, Maryam Ghatei,
Fouzihe Hediary, Farzaneh Jazini, Vala Heidary Kiah, Zeynab Mahmoudi, Fatemeh
Safariyan and Maryam Seiri - 145
Long-term
effects of fire on ant communities (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Pinus brutia forests of south-western
Turkey
Burçin Yenisey Kaynaş, Kadri Kıran and Celal
Karaman - 160
Limited
polymorphism in two spittlebugs, Philaenus
spumarius (Linnaeus) and P. signatus Melichar (Hemiptera:
Cercopidae), in island populations from Western Turkey
Selçuk Yurtsever - 169
Arachnida
Identification
key to the species of Amblyolpium
Simon (Pseudoscorpiones: Garypinidae), with first record of Amblyolpium bellum Chamberlin from Iran
Mahrad Nassirkhani - 174
Short
Communications
Evidence
of seed germination in scats of the Asiatic Black Bear Ursus thibetanus in Iran
(Mammalia: Carnivora)
Hadi Fahimi, Ali T. Qashqaei, Mehdi Chalani, Zeinab
Asadi, Siamak Broomand, Nahid Ahmadi and Gholam Hosein Yusefi - 182
The first
record of the Southwest Asian Badger Meles
canescens (Mammalia: Mustelidae) from
Afghanistan
Nasratullah Jahed and Stéphane Ostrowski- 185
Volume
64, Issue 1, 2018
Mammalia
Systematic
relationships within the Microtus arvalis (Rodentia: Cricetidae) group in
Iran, inferred from cytogenetic analyses
Ahmad Mahmoudi, Jan Zima, Boris Kryštufek, Jamshid
Darvish, Mansour Aliabadian and Atilla Arslan - 1
Distribution
and phylogeography of Blanford’s Fox, Vulpes
cana (Carnivora: Canidae), in Africa
and the Middle East
Mostafa Saleh, Mahmoud Younes, Ali Basuony, Fouad
Abdel-Hamid,
Abdullah Nagy and Ahmad Badry - 9
Geomorphometric
differences among four species of Microtus
in Turkey (Mammalia: Rodentia)
Ahmet Yesari Selçuk, Alaettin Kaya and Haluk
Kefelioğlu - 27
Reptilia
Impact of
nest relocation on the reproductive success of Loggerhead Turtles, Caretta caretta, in the Göksu Delta, Turkey (Reptilia: Cheloniidae)
Onur Candan - 38
The Gray
Toad-headed Agama, Phrynocephalus scutellatus, on the Iranian Plateau: The
degree of niche overlap depends on the phylogenetic distance
Anooshe Kafash, Shima Malakoutikhah, Masoud Yousefi,
Farhad Ataei, Hamid Heidari, and Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani - 47
Crustacea
Female
reproductive pattern of Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Brachyura:
Portunidae) in Iskenderun Bay, Eastern Mediterranean
Canan Türeli, İrem Nur Yeşilyurt and İ.
Erdal Nevşat - 55
Mollusca
Pseudobithynia guldeni sp. n.,
a new gastropod species from the Mediterranean region of Turkey (Gastropoda:
Truncatelloidea)
Mustafa Emre Gürlek - 64
Hexapoda
On the
genus Sunius Stephens, 1829 of
Turkey. VI. A new micropterous species and distribution of the genus
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
Sinan Anlaş - 68
Arachnida
On the scorpion
fauna of Egypt, with an identification key (Arachnida: Scorpiones)
Ahmed Badry, Mahmoud Younes, Moustafa M. H. Sarhan and
Mostafa Saleh - 75
Short
Communications
On the
distribution of Dina stschegolewi
(Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae) in the South Caucasus
Andrii Khomenko, Serge Utevsky, Dmitry Palatov, Mair
Huseynov, Shabnam Farzali, Leman Dadashova, Kaveh Darabi-Darestani, Andrei
Utevsky - 88
Suspected
rat predation on the Near Eastern Fire Salamander (Salamandra infraimmaculata) by selective consumption of non-toxic
tissue
Nadav Pezaro, Valentina Rovelli, Ori Segev, Alan R.
Templeton and Leon
Blaustein - 91
Corrigendum
Correction
to: Do recent leopard Panthera pardus
records from northern Iraq and south-eastern Turkey reveal an unknown
population nucleus in the region?
Batur Avgan, Hama Raza, Muhammadsaddik Barzani and Urs
Breitenmoser - 94
Volume
63, Issue 4 (2017)
Aves
Nest position, breeding success and diet of the Black-crowned Night
Heron, Nycticorax nycticorax in the Anzali Wetland, Northern Iran
(Aves: Ardeidae) – Abbas Ashoori, Hossien
Varasteh Moradi, Hamid Reza Rezaiee and Abdolrassoul Salman Mahiny – 283
Unusual song of an individual Cyprus Scops Owl Otus cyprius
(Aves: Strigidae) – Peter Flint – 291
Reptilia
A new species of frog-eyed gecko, genus Teratoscincus Strauch,
1863 (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae), from southeastern Iran. Morteza Akbarpour, Soheila Shafiei, Mohammad Ebrahim
Sehhatisabet and Ehsan Damadi –296
Geographic variation of Gloydius halys caucasicus
(Serpentes: Viperidae) in Iran. Sharifeh Khani,
Haji Gholi Kami and Mehdi Rajabizadeh – 303
Isolated population of the Middle Eastern Phoenicolacerta laevis
from the Georgian Black Sea Coast, and its genetic closeness to populations
from southern Turkey. David Tarkhnishvili,
Mariam Gabelaia, Andrei Kandaurov, Alexander Bukhnikashvili and Giorgi
Iankoshvili – 311
Osteichthyes
A new species of Pomatoschistus (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from
Southern Anatolia. Semih Engin and Deniz
İnnal – 316
The diet of native and invasive fish species along the eastern Mediterranean coast (Osteichthyes). Roni-Lee Gilaad, Bella S. Galil, Ariel Diamant and Menachem Goren – 325
Hexapoda
A checklist of the genus Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera:
Pipunculidae) from the Middle East with the description of a new species. Bahareh Majnon Jahromi, Mehdi Gheibi, Majid Fallahzadeh,
Christian Kehlmaier and Shahram Hesami – 336
Contribution to the Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Iran,
with descriptions of three new species. Matthias
Riedel and Pardis Aghadokht – 348
Hydrochus adiyamanensis sp. n. from
Adıyaman Province in south-eastern Turkey (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae). Gani Erhan Taşar – 356
Arachnida
A new species from the Clubiona caerulescens group from
the Caucasus (Araneae: Clubionidae). Kirill G.
Mikhailov, Stefan Otto and George Japoshvili – 362
Short Communications
Reproduction of the Barn Owl (Tyto alba) in Cyprus (Aves:
Strigiformes). Nicolaos Kassinis and Alexandre
Roulin – 369
First record of Dusky Warbler, Phylloscopus fuscatus
(Aves: Sylviidae), from Iran. Fardin Naziri,
Abbas Ashoori and Petri Lampila – 372
New record of the European Finless Eel Apterichtus caecus
from Iskenderun Bay, eastern Mediterranean Sea. Deniz
Erguden, Servet Ahmet Doğdu, Ali Uyan, Mevlut Gurlek and Cemal Turan – 374
Volume
63, Issue 3 (2017)
Mammalia
A new chromosomal race (2n=44) of Nannospalax xanthodon
from Turkey (Mammalia: Rodentia). Teoman
Kankılıç, Atilla Arslan, Perinçek Seçkinozan Şeker, Tolga
Kankılıç, Kubilay Toyran and Jan Zima - 181
Aves
Behavioural and morphological characteristics of white doves in
Osmaniye, Turkey identify the population as Laughing Doves (Streptopelia
senegalensis). Lale Aktay, Özgün Sözüer,
Joshua J. Horns, Derviş Kökenek, Bilge Kağan Tomas and Çağan H.
Şekercioğlu - 189
Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus): Important
wintering sites and breeding records in the United Arab Emirates. Shahid B. Khan, Salim Javed, Shakeel Ahmed, Junid N.
Shah, Abdulla Ali Al Hammadi and Eissa Ali Al Hammadi - 194
Reptilia
Population size and structure of the African Softshell Turtle, Trionyx
triunguis, in Dalaman, southwestern Turkey. Salim
Can Akçınar and Ertan Taşkavak - 202
Osteichthyes
A new species of Diplecogaster (Actinopterygii: Gobiesocidae)
from the Mediterranean Sea. Murat
Bilecenoğlu, Mehmet Baki Yokeş and Marcelo Kovačić - 210
New record of Ptarmus gallus Kossmann & Räuber, 1877
from the northern Red Sea (Teleostei: Aploactinidae), with a redescription. of
the species. Ronald Fricke,
Daniel Golani and Brenda Appelbaum-Golani - 219
Re-description of Oxynoemacheilus longipinnis from the Persian
Gulf basin (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Golnaz
Sayyadzadeh, Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Soheil Eagderi, Arash Jouladeh-Roudbar,
Mojtaba Masoudi and Saber Vatandoust - 228
Hexapoda
Discovery of the subfamily Microtypinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in
Egypt, with the description of a new species. Yusuf
A. Edmardsah, Neveen S. Gadallaha and Kees van Achterberg - 239
New data on the genus Chrysotoxum Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae)
from North-East Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran including descriptions of
three new species. Ante Vujić, Zorica
Nedeljković, Rüstem Hayat, Ozan Demirözer, Ximo Mengual and Farzaneh
Kazerani - 250
Arachnida
Three new species of Zerconidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Turkey – Raşit Urhan and Elif Hilal Duran - 269
Short Communications
New breeding sites of the Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus)
in Turkey (Aves: Falconiformes) – Recep
Karakaş and Murat Biricik - 277
First Palaearctic record of the genus Pygophora Schiner, 1868
(Diptera: Muscidae) from Iranian Baluchestan – Mehrdad
Parchami-Araghi, Adrian C. Pont, Ebrahim Gilasian, Farzaneh Basavand and
Hosnieh Mousavi - 280
Volume
60, Issue 2 (2017)
Mammalia
Reconstructing historical baselines for the Persian/Arabian Gulf Dugong,
Dugong dugon (Mammalia: Sirena). Dalal
Al-Abdulrazzak and Daniel Pauly – 95
Aves
Autumn migration of the White Stork, Ciconia ciconia, and
the Black Stork, C. nigra, over the Bosphorus (Aves: Ciconiidae). Zeynel Arslangündoğdu, Ergün Bacak, Vedat
Beşkardeş, Cem Dalyan, Luke Smith, Margaret R. Payne and Ümit
Yardım – 103
Reptilia
Description of a new species of Lytorhynchus (Squamata:
Colubridae) from Iran – Farhang Torki – 109
Taxonomy and distribution of sand boas of the genus Eryx Daudin,
1803 (Serpentes: Erycidae) in Iran – Mohammad
Zarrintab, Konstantin D. Milto, Naeimeh Eskandarzadeh, Bahman Zangi, Mohammad
Jahan, Haji Gholi Kami, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani
and Mahdi Rajabizadeh – 117
Amphibia
Food composition of the Near Eastern Fire Salamander, Salamandra infraimmaculata
Martens, 1885 (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae) from Eastern Anatolia – Kerim Çiçek, Mustafa Koyun and Cemal Varol Tok – 130
Osteichthyes
First record of Pristipomoides multidens (Day, 1871) from
the Gulf of Aqaba, with a note on the species of Pristipomoides in the Red Sea
(Actinopterygii: Lutjanidae). Avi
Baranes, Nir Stern and Menachem Goren – 136
Mollusca
A new genus and species of galeommatoid bivalve (Mollusca: Bivalvia:
Montacutidae) from Kuwait Bay, Arabian Gulf. P.
Graham Oliver, Valeriy A. Skryabin and Aws Y. Al-Ghunaim – 141
Hexapoda
Additions to the Pipunculidae fauna of Iran, with the description of a
new species of Tomosvaryella (Insecta: Diptera). Farzaneh Kazerani, Samad Khaghaninia and Christian
Kehlmaier – 147
Records of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) new to both Georgia and
Transcaucasia revealed by DNA barcoding. Giorgi
Kirkitadze, Martin Husemann, Robert J. Paxton, Rita Radzevičiūtė
and George Japoshvili – 154
A new species of Limnia Robineau-Desviody, 1830 (Diptera:
Sciomyzidae) from Iran. Mohammad Seddighi Sadr
and Saeed Mohamadzade Namin – 161
Taxonomic notes about Paropta Staudinger, 1899 (Lepidoptera:
Cossidae). Roman V. Yakovlev and Thomas J. Witt
– 166
Araneae
A new Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996 from the
Elburz Mountains, Iran (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Andrei
V. Tanasevitch – 172
Short Communications
Breeding biology of the Common Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus,
at natural nesting sites in the north of Iran (Aves: Falconiformes). Sina Anushiravani and Zahra Sepehri Roshan – 176
First record of Aequorea vitrina Gosse, 1853 (Hydrozoa)
from the Sea of Marmara: a potential invader for the Mediterranean Sea. I. Noyan Yilmaz, Melek Isinibilir, Denizhan Vardar and
Fuat Dursun – 178
Volume
63, Issue 1 (2017)
Mammalia
Taxonomic identity of Chionomys nivalis spitzenbergerae
(Mammalia: Rodentia). Atilla Arslan, Emine
Arslan, Ahmad Mahmoudi, Anna Bannikova and Boris Kryštufek - 1
Aves
Changes in the breeding avifauna of Israel during 2003–2016. Yoav Perlman, Barak Granit and Avner Cohen - 8
Reptilia
Male reproductive seasonality of the Snake-eyed Lizard, Ophisops elegans
Ménétriés, 1832, from Lebanon (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Fida Nassar, Riyad Sadek and Souad Hraoui-Bloquet - 17
Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes
Age at maturity of some fish species distributed in Turkish marine
waters (Actinopterygii and Elasmobranchii). Sedat
Gündoğdu and Makbule Baylan - 24
Squalius semae, a new species of
chub from the Euphrates River, Eastern Anatolia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Davut Turan, Maurice Kottelat and Esra Bayçelebi -
33
Occurrence of Lobotes surinamensis (Osteichthyes:
Lobotidae) in the Mediterranean: Historical and recent data. Gökçen Bilge, Halit Filiz and Anil Gülşahin -
43
Risk screening of non-native and translocated freshwater fish species in
a Mediterranean-type shallow lake: Lake Marmara (West Anatolia). Ali Serhan Tarkan, Hasan M. Sarı, Ali İlhan,
Irmak Kurtul and Lorenzo Vilizzi - 48
Hexapoda
First record of the genus Gynecaptera Skorikov, 1935
(Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Apterogyninae) from Saudi Arabia, with
description of a new species. Ahmed Mostafa
Soliman, Neveen Samy Gadallah and Hathal Mohammed Al Dhafer - 58
A new species of ant-loving cricket Myrmecophilus Berthold, 1827
from Cyprus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae). Thomas
Stalling - 63
A new ant species of the Leptogenys sulcinoda-group
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia. Mostafa
R. Sharaf, Shahid A. Akbar, Hathal M. Al Dhafer and Abdulrahman S. Aldawood -
68
Description of a new species of Liosarcophaga (s. str.) from
Turkey (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Sarcophagini). Yury
Verves, Vladimir Radchenko and Lyudmyla Khrokalo - 76
Arachnida
A new species of Hoplopholcus Kulczyński, 1908 (Araneae:
Pholcidae) from the European part of Turkey. Nurcan
Demircan and Aydın Topçu - 83
A new species of soil mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae) from
Afyonkarahisar province, Turkey. Elif Hilal
Duran, Mehmet Karaca and Raşit Urhan - 86
Short Communications
First record of Nathusius’ Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus nathusii
(Mammalia: Chiroptera), from Iran. Saeid Naderi,
Christian Dietz, Alireza Mirzajani and Frieder Mayer – 92
Volume
62, Issue 4 (2016)
Mammalia
Distribution of Asellia tridens (Chiroptera:
Hipposideridae) lineages including representatives from Saudi Arabia. Timothy C. Bray and Petr Benda – 280
Aves
Attributes of trees used by nesting and foraging woodpeckers (Aves:
Picidae) in an area with old pollarded Oaks (Quercus spp.) in the Taurus
Mountains, Turkey. Adam Bergner, Anton
Sunnergren, Burcu Yeşilbudak, Cahit Erdem and Nicklas Jansson- 288
Reptilia
Phylogenetic affinities of the Iraqi populations of Saw-scaled vipers of
the genus Echis (Serpentes: Viperidae), revealed by sequences of mtDNA
genes. Fadhil Abbas Rhadi, Eskandar
Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Rihab Ghaleb Mohammed and Seyyed
Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani - 299
Home ranges of parthenogenetic and bisexual species in a community of Darevskia
lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Neftalí
Sillero, Claudia Corti and Miguel A. Carretero - 306
Osteichthyes
First record of the Brassy Chub Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) in the Eastern Mediterranean (Osteichthyes: Perciformes: Kyphosidae). Menachem Goren, Bella S. Galil, Roy Gevili and Nir Stern - 319
Crustacea
New records of deep-sea decapod crustaceans in the Turkish Mediterranean
Sea (North Levant Sea). Mehmet
Cengiz Deval and Carlo Froglia - 323
Population genetics and reproductive strategies of two Notostraca
(Crustacea) species from winter ponds in Israel. Michal
Sorek, Jacob Douek, Tamar Guy-Haim, Noa Simon-Blecher, Baruch Rinkevich and
Yair Achituv - 331
Hexapoda
A new species of the genus Vulda Jacquelin du Val from Turkey
(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Xantholinini). Sinan Anlaş - 342
A new species of Maladera from Jordan (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae:
Sericini). Dirk Ahrens, Silvia Fabrizi and Eckehard
Rößner- 347
First record of the bee genus Melitta from the Arabian Peninsula
(Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Mohamed A. Shebl, Abdulaziz S. Alqarni and Michael S.
Engel - 352
A new species of the genus Haba Semenov, 1954 (Hymenoptera:
Chrysididae) from Iran, with a key to species. Franco Strumia and Majid Fallahzadeh - 358
A new species of Hercostomus Loew, 1857 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
from Turkey. Alper Tonguç,
Patrick Grootaert and Murat Barlas- 362
Short Communications
First record of Black-throated Accentor, Prıunella atrogulaıris
(Brandt, 1884), in Turkey. Arzu
Gürsoy Ergen and Y. Sancar Barış - 367
First record of Androctonus robustus Kovařík &
Ahmed, 2013 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) for Iran. Ersen Aydın Yağmur, Mohammad
Moradi, Maryam Larti and Samira
Lashkari - 370
A new species and new distribution records of Zaitunia from Iran
(Araneae: Filistatidae). Alireza
Zamani and Yuri M. Marusik - 373
Volume
62, Issue 3 (2016)
Zoogeography
The Anatolian diagonal revisited: Testing the ecological basis of a
biogeographic boundary. Hakan Gür - 189
Mammalia
Altitudinal variation in the diversity and structure of the desert rodent
community from Jebel Al Jais, United Arab Emirates. Haemish
Melville and Anne-Lise Chaber- 200
A new and highly divergent mitochondrial lineage in the Small Five-toed
Jerboa, Allactaga elater, from Iran (Mammalia: Rodewntia). Saeed Mohammadi, Sandra Afonso, Mohammad Ali Adibi, José
Melo-Ferreira and Rita Campos - 206
The stomach content of a Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus):
finding of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) remains. Arda M. Tonay, Erdem Danyer, Ayhan Dede, Bayram Öztürk
and Ayaka A. Öztürk - 212
Aves
Attributes of trees used by nesting and foraging woodpeckers (Aves:
Picidae) in an area with old pollarded Oaks (Quercus spp.) in the Taurus
Mountains, Turkey. Adam Bergner, Anton
Sunnergren, Burcu Yeşilbudak, Cahit Erdem and Nicklas Jansson - 217
Phylogenetic relationships of Eurasian Nuthatches (Sitta europaea
Linnaeus, 1758) from the Alborz and Zagros Mountains, Iran. Masoud Nazarizadeh, Mohammad Kaboli, Hamid Reza Rezaie,
Jalil Imani Harisini and Eric Pasquet - 228
Reptilia
Diet of the Worm Lizard, Diplometopon zarudnyi (Nikolsky,
1907), in Riyadh province, Saudi Arabia (Reptilia: Trogonophidae). Mohammad Khalid Al-Sadoon, Bilal Ahmad Paray and
Hassan A. Rudayni - 238
Phylogeny and biogeography of Arabian populations of the Persian Horned
Viper Pseudocerastes persicus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril,
1854). Philip de Pous, Marc Simó-Riudalbas,
Johannes Els, Sithum Jayasinghe, Felix Amat and Salvador Carranza - 242
The feminizing effect of metabolic heating in Green Turtle (Chelonia
mydas) clutches in the eastern Mediterranean. Betül F. Önder and Onur Candan - 250
Amphibia
On the trophic spectrum of Pelophylax ridibundus (Pallas,
1771) (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae) in western Iran. Behzad Fathinia, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Hamid
Darvishnia, Arya Shafaeipour and Ghodrat Jaafari - 259
Geographic nestedness of Lyciasalamandra billae (Amphibia:
Salamandridae) populations within L. antalyana and description of a new
subspecies. Olaf Godmann, Mert Kariş and
Bayram Göçmen- 267
Hexapoda
A new species of Copidosoma (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from Iran. George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani and Jahangir
Khajehali - 273
Arachnida
Two new harvestmen species (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the Caucasus. Nataly Yu. Snegovaya and Alexey N. Tchemeris - 276
Short Communications
A new record of Lagocephalus guentheri (Tetraodontiformes:
Tetraodontidae) from the north-eastern Aegean Sea. Okan Akyol and İlker Aydın - 283
First record of female intersex in Litarachna communis
Walter, 1925 (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. M. Levent Artüz and Vladimir Pešić - 286
Description of the hitherto unknown female of Xysticus tenuiapicalis
Demir, 2012 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Hakan
Demirand Hakkı Onur Koçyiğit - 289
The Desert Beauty Calopieris eulimene: a butterfly new to
Egypt (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Ahmed
El-Gabbas and Francis Gilbert - 291
Expression of Concern
Expression of Concern - 294
Volume
62, Issue 2 (2016)
Mammalia
Do recent leopard Panthera pardus records from northern Iraq and
south-eastern Turkey reveal an unknown population nucleus in the region? Batur Avgan, Hana Raza, Muhammadsaddik Barzani and Urs
Breitenmoser – 95
Aves
Breeding biology of the Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus
in the Sabkhat Al-Fasl Lagoons, Saudi Arabia (Aves: Charadriiformes). Monif AlRashidi – 105
Osteichthyes
Description of two new species of the genus Gobio (Teleostei:
Cyprinidae) from the Black Sea coast of Turkey. Davut
Turan, Bella Japoshvili, İsmail Aksu and Yusuf Bektaş – 112
Mollusca
Diversity, habitats and size-frequency distribution of the gastropod
genus Conus at Dahab in the Gulf of Aqaba, Northern Red Sea. Sarah Zauner and Martin Zuschin – 125
Hexapoda
Ants of the genus Syllophopsis Santschi, 1915 (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae) in Saudi Arabia with description of a new species. Abdulrahman S. Aldawood – 137
Contribution to the knowledge of the click beetle genus Zorochros
(Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Saudi Arabia. Hathal
M. Al Dhafer and Samuel A. Wells – 144
Revision of the Clytra subfasciata species group (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini). Jan
Bezděk – 148
Oligochaeta
Description of the first endemic earthworm species from Cyprus
(Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae). Tímea Szederjesi,
Tomás Pavlíček and Csaba Csuzdi – 158
Arachnida
Two new species of the genus Zercon C. L. Koch from theInner Aegean Region
of Turkey (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae). Raşit
Urhan, Elif Hilal Duran and Mehmet Karaca – 164
Two new spider species of the family Dysderidae (Araneae) from Turkey. M. İsmail Varol and Adile Akpınar – 171
A new species of Paratheuma (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Southwestern Asia
and transfer of the genus. Alireza
Zamani, Yuri M. Marusik and James W. Berry – 177
Short Communication
New record of the thermophilic Cephalopholis taeniops (Osteichthyes:
Serranidae) in the Aegean Sea. Semih
Engin, Erhan Irmak and Dilruba Seyhan – 184
First record of the hydrozoan Oceania armata Kölliker, 1853 from Turkey.
Nurçin Gülşahin, Murat Çelik, Cemal Turan
and Celal Ateş – 187
Volume
62, Issue 1 (2016)
Mammalia
Prey of the Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)
in a mixed forest-steppe landscape in northeastern Iran (Mammalia: Felidae). Elmira Sharbafi, Mohammad S. Farhadiniaa, Hamid R. Rezaie
and Alex Richard Braczkowski – 1
Aves
Nest-site selection and its impact on breeding success of the Lesser
Kestrel, Falco naumanni, in the North of Iran (Aves:
Falconiformes). Sina Anushiravani, Davoud
Fadakar, Zahra Sepehri Roshan and Hamid-Reza Rezaei – 9
Diet of the Omani Owl, Strix butleri, near Nakhal, Oman. Zuhair S. Amr, Magnus S. Robb, João M. G. Nunes, Mohammad
A. Abu Baker and Alyn Walsh – 17
The first confirmed records of Omani Owl, Strix butleri
(A. O. Hume, 1878) (Aves: Strigidae), from Iran. Seyed
Babak Musavi, Ali Khani, Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh and Magnus Robb –
21
Diet of a nesting pair of Long-eared Owls, Asio otus, in
an urban envi-ronment in southwestern Turkey (Aves: Strigidae). Elif Göçer – 25
Reptilia
A skeletochronological study of age, growth and longevity in two
freshwater turtles, Emys orbicularis and Mauremys rivulata,
from Mediterranean Turkey (Reptilia: Testudines). Kerim
Çiçek, Meltem Kumaş, Dinçer Ayaz and Cemal Varol Tok – 29
Seasonal changes in the testicular activity of the Iranian Mountain
Viper, Montivipera albicornuta (Nilson & Andrén, 1985)
(Reptilia: Viperidae). Parvaneh Safdarian,
Fatemeh Todehdehghan, Vida Hojati and Abdolhossein Shiravi – 39
Comparison of reptile sampling in Iran with pitfall versus double-ended
funnel traps. Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
Yousefkhani and Masoud Yousefi – 46
Osteichthyes
Feeding ecology and trophic level of Chimaera monstrosa
Linnaeus, 1758 (Holocephali: Chimaeridae) in the Eastern Mediterranean. Elizabeth Grace Tunka Eronat – 51
Mollusca
On a new species of Euchondrus Boettger, 1883 from Syria (Pulmonata:
Enidae). Eike Neubert and Zuhair Amr
– 58
Hexapoda
A new species of the genus Megasis Guenée, 1845 from Turkey
(Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Kesran Akın
– 61
Gypsochroa renitidata
(Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Desmobathrinae), a genus and species new for the
fauna of Iran. Hossein Rajaei and Shamsi
Feizpour – 64
On the genus Sunius Curtis, 1829 of Turkey. III. Four new species
from western Anatolia, Turkey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Sinan Anlaş – 68
Arachnida
Notes on Hysterochelifer afghanicus Beier
(Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferidae), with a key to the species of Hysterochelifer
Chamberlin. Mahrad Nassirkhani, Reza Vafai
Shoushtari and Mahtab Rahmat Abadi – 78
Short Communication
Striped Hyaenas (Hyaena hyaena) in Grey Wolf (Canis
lupus) packs: cooperation, commensalism or singular aberration? Vladimir Dinets and Beniamin Eligulashvili –
85
Recent hard evidence for the occurrence of the Leopard, Panthera pardus
(Mammalia: Felidae), in the Eastern Greater Caucasus. Yuri Yarovenko and Nugzar Zazanashvili – 88
Observations on the diet of the Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaetos,
in Bijar Protected Area (Kurdistan, Iran) (Aves: Falconiformes). Ali Turk Qashqaei, Faraham Ahmadzadeh, Ayoob Sharifi, L.
Elizabeth Gray and Aliasghar Zarei – 91
First record of Oodes irakensis Andrewes (Coleoptera:
Carabidae: Harpalinae: Oodini) in Iran and a new synonym in Oodes. Jan Muilwijk and Mehdi Esfandiari – 93
Volume
61, Issue 4 (2015)
Mammalia
Status of the Arabian Gazelle, Gazella arabica (Mammalia:
Bovidae), in Dhofar, Oman
Hadi Al Hikmani, Said Zabanoot, Talah Al Shahari,
Nasser Zabanoot, Khalid Al Hikmani and Andrew Spalton –195
Reptilia
A small fishery with a high impact on sea turtle populations in the
eastern Mediterranean
Yaniv Levy, Ori Frid, Adi Weinberger, Rotem Sade, Yoav
Adam, Uria Kandanyan, Victoria Berkun, Noga Perry, Dor Edelist, Menachem Goren,
Shevy Bat-Sheva Rothman, Nir Stern, Dan Tchernov and Rilov Gil – 300
Male reproduction cycle of Kulzer’s Rock Lizard, Phoenicolacerta kulzeri
(Müller & Wettstein, 1932), in Lebanon (Reptilia: Lacertidae)
Kamal Rizk and Fida Nassar – 318
Phylogenetic relationships of the populations of Iranolacerta brandtii
(de Filippi, 1863) (Squamata: Lacertidae) recently found in Eastern Anatolia,
Turkey
Catarina Rato, Mehmet Zülfü
Yıldız, Naşit İğci, Kurtuluş Olgun, Çetin Ilgaz,
Aziz Avcı, Faraham Ahmadzadeh and Miguel A. Carretero – 324
Amphibia
A skeletochronological analysis of a population of the Anatolia Newt, Neurergus
strauchii (Steindachner, 1887) (Caudata: Salamandridae), in Eastern
Anatolia, Turkey
Batuhan Yaman Yakın, Kerim Çiçek, Mustafa Koyun,
Mert Gürkan, Sibel Hayretdağ and Cemal Varol Tok – 332
Osteichthyes
The life-history traits of widespread freshwater fish species: the case
of Roach Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pisces: Teleostei) in
water bodies at the southern limits of distribution
Sercan Başkurt, Özgür Emiroğlu, Ali Serhan
Tarkan and Lorenzo Vilizzi – 339
Re-validation of Gonorhynchus adiscus and G.
diplochilus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) using morphological and molecular data
Golnaz Sayyadzadeh, Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Keivan Abbasi
and Brian W. Coad – 349
Hexapoda
First record of the ant genus Strumigenys S. Smith, 1860
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Qatar by the invasive species S. membranifera
Emery, 1869
Mostafa R. Sharaf, Salma H. Al-Hajri and Abdulrahman
S. Aldawood – 362
New aphid records for Saudi Arabia (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea)
Sabir Hussain, Yousif Aldryhim, Hathal Al-Dhafer,
Susan E. Halbert and Jacob Thomas – 368
Arachnida
A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae)
Sergei L. Zonstein, Yuri M. Marusik and Mikhail Omelko – 372
Short Communication
First record of the Slender Pony Fish, Equulites elongatus
(Günther, 1874) (Osteichthyes: Leiognathidae), from the Turkish coast of the
Levantine Sea
Erhan Irmak, Semih Engin, Dilruba Seyhan and Uğur
Özden – 386
Volume
61, Issue 3 (2015)
Aves
Turkey as a crossroad for Greater Flamingos Phoenicopterus roseus:
evidence from population trends and ring-resightings (Aves: Phoenicopteridae) –
Özge Balkız, Ortaç Onmuş, Mehmet
Sıkı, Ömer Döndüren, Orhan Gül, Antoine Arnaud, Christophe Germain,
Süreyya İsfendiyaroğlu, Melih Özbek, Eray Çağlayan, Nilüfer
Araç, Burcu Parmak, Uygar Özesmi and Arnaud Béchet - 201
Population increase of the Long-eared Owl, Asio otus
(Linnaeus, 1758), in Iran (Aves: Strigidae) – Abolghasem
Khaleghizadeh, Mohammad Tohidifar, Seyed Babak Musavi, Alireza Hashemi, Ali
Khani and Maryam Omidi - 215
Salinity affects territory size of migratory Little Stint (Calidris
minuta) (Aves: Limicolae) – Reuven Yosef and
Piotr Zduniak - 220
Reptilia
Verification of the Minor Snake-eyed Skink, Ablepharus grayanus
(Stoliczka, 1872) (Sauria: Scincidae), from Iran – Rasoul
Karamiani, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyania, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Morteza
Akbarpour and Ehsan Damadi - 226
Sexual dimorphism of the European Pond Turtle, Emys orbicularis
(Linnaeus, 1758), in Anzali Lagoon, Iran (Reptilia: Emydidae) – Marzieh Kaviani and Mohammad Reza Rahimibashar
- 231
Osteichthyes
Genetic variation in an isolated population of the newly identified
endemic gudgeon Gobio sakaryaensis (Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae) – Güzin Emecen, Ergi Deniz Özsoy, Murat Yılmaz and
Fitnat Güler Ekmekçi - 236
Insecta
A new species of weevil of the genus Rhytideres (Coleoptera:
Entiminae: Alophini) from Inner Anatolia (Turkey) – Mahmut
Erbey - 241
A new trehala-constructing Larinus Dejean (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
from Iran – Levent Gültekin and Saideh
Shahreyary-Nejad - 246
A new species of the genus Chrysolina Motschulsky, 1860 from
Turkey (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) – İsmail
Şen - 252
Bee diversity (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) visiting Broad Bean (Vicia faba
L.) flowers in Egypt – Mohamed A. Shebl and
Mahmoud Farag - 256
High genetic diversity in southwest Asian populations of Philaenus
spumarius (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) – Anna
Maryańska-Nadachowska, Ehsan Sanaie and Łukasz Kajtoch -
264
Arachnida
A new species of Compsobuthus Vachon, 1949 (Scorpiones:
Buthidae) from Armenia – Wilson R. Lourenço and Elise-Anne Leguin - 273
Redescription of Rhagodes eylandti (Walter, 1889)
(Arachnida: Solifugae) with notes on its morphological variation and geographic
distribution – Hassan Maddahi, Haji Gholi Kami,
Mansour Aliabadian and Omid Mirshamsi - 278
Short Communications
New records of marine water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae)
from the eastern Mediterranean Sea (İzmir Bay, Turkey) – Kamil Koç, Merve Türksel and Vladimir Pešić -
285
New records of dragonflies (Odonata) from Belutschistan-e-Sistan
province in Iran – Thomas Schneider,
Dietmar Ikemeyer and Henri J. Dumont - 288
First record in Syria of Androthrips ramachandrai Karny,
1926 (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) – Ali
Yaseen Ali - 291
Obituary
In memory of Dr. Adwan Shehab – Zuhair
Amr - 294
Volume
61, Issue 2 (2015)
Mammalia
South-Eastern Lesser Caucasus: the most important landscape for
conserving the Leopard (Panthera pardus) in the Caucasus region
(Mammalia: Felidae) – Elshad Askerov, Tariel
Talibov, Karen Manvelyan, Nugzar Zazanashvili, Alexander Malkhasyan, Parviz
Fatullayev and Aurel Heidelberg - 95
First confirmed record of the Corsac Fox, Vulpes corsac,
from Iran and considerations on its status (Mammalia: Canidae) – Leili Khalatbari, Fariborz Heidari, Ali Turk Qashqaei and
Kaveh Faizolah - 102
Ecological niche of the Asiatic Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus)
in the arid environment of Iran (Mammalia: Felidae) – Jalil Sarhangzadeha, Hassan Akbari and Bahman Shams
Esfandabad - 109
Reptilia
Taxonomic reevaluation of Eremias strauchi strauchi
Kessler, 1878 and Eremias strauchi kopetdaghica Szczerbak, 1972, based on
nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences (Reptilia: Lacertidae) – Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
Yousefkhani and Michael Wink - 118
Amphibia
Genetic evidence for human-mediated introduction of Anatolian water
frogs (Pelophylax cf. bedriagae) to Cyprus (Amphibia: Ranidae) – Jörg Plötner, Çiğdem Akın Pekşen, Felix
Baier, Thomas Uzzell and C. Can Bilgin - 125
Osteichthyes
Spatial and temporal dynamics of the rock-pool ichthyofauna on Qeshm
Island, Persian Gulf – Asma Daryanavard, Asghar
Abdoli, Mohammad Sharif Ranjbar, Mohammad Reza Shokri and Bahram H. Kiabi
- 133
Mollusca
Description of two new species of Pseudamnicola from southern Turkey
(Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) – Peter
Glöer, M. Zeki Yıldırım and Ümit Kebapçi - 139
Insecta
First records of species of the Hesperinidae and Cylindrotomidae (Diptera:
Nematocera) from Turkey – Okan Özgül
- 144
Occurrence of Chrysochus asclepiadeus (Pallas, 1773)
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Turkey: two distinct subspecies or the same
taxon with slightly different populations? – Ali
Nafiz Ekiz, İsmail Şen, Ali Gök and Ergin Turantepe - 148
A new species of Tetartopeus Czwalina, 1888 from Turkey, and some
additional records from the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae:
Paederinae) – Sinan Anlaş - 153
Metaphycus parthenolecanii sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a
parasitoid of Parthenolecanium corni (Hemiptera: Coccidae) in
Iran – George Japoshvili, Khatereh Jalilvand,
Hassan Ali Vahedi and Majid Fallahzadeh - 161
A new species of plume moth (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Jordan – Peter Ustjuzhanin, Vasily Kovtunovich and Anna
Ustjuzhanina - 166
Records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Northern Iran – Shabnam Moradloo, Reyhan Nafisi Fard, Shahrokh Pashaei
Rad and Brian Taylor - 168
Arachnida
A new species of the genus Prozercon Sellnick, 1943 (Acari:
Mesostigmata: Zerconidae) from Turkey – Elif
Hilal Duran and Raşit Urhan - 174
A new species of the harvestmen genus Rilaena (Opiliones:
Phalangiidae) from Turkey – Kemal Kurt
- 179
Short Communications
The first record of the White-breasted Waterhen, Amaurornis phoenicurus,
in Iran (Aves: Rallidae) – Thomas Stalling,
Raffael Ayé and Tobias Roth - 184
A newly established population of the Indian Ocean Twospot Cardinalfish,
Cheilodipterus novemstriatus (Rüppell, 1838), in the Northern
Levantine Sea (Osteichthyes: Apogonidae) – Erhan
Irmak and Semih Engin - 186
Comment, Response and Rejoinder
Introduction – Kasparek, Max - 189
Towards a better understanding of Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus
griseldis (Aves: Passeriformes: Acrocephalidae) ecology? A comment on
Al-Sheikhly et al. (2013) – Richard Porter, Leo
Batten, John Burton, Jon M. Collinson, Peter Cowan, Peter Kennerley, Guy M.
Kirwan, R. G. Newell, David Pearson, Roger Riddington, Mudhafar Salim, Robert
Sheldon, Derek Scott, and Martin Woodcock - 190
A response to the comment of Porter et al. (2014) on “Breeding ecology
of the Basra Reed Warbler Acrocephalus griseldis (Hartlaub, 1891)
in Iraq (Aves: Passeriformes: Acrocephalidae)” – Omar
F. Al-Sheikhly, Iyad Nader and Filippo Barbanera- 193
Rejoinder to the Response of Al-Sheikhly et al. – Richard Porter, Leo Batten, John Burton, Jon M.
Collinson, Peter Cowan, Peter Kennerley, Guy M. Kirwan, R. G. Newell, David
Pearson, Roger Riddington, Mudhafar Salim, Robert Sheldon, Derek Scott, and
Martin Woodcock - 199
Volume
61, Issue 1 (2015)
Mammalia
Tattoo-like skin disease in the endangered subpopulation of the Humpback
Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, in Oman (Cetacea: Balaenopteridae)
– Marie-Françoise Van Bressem, Gianna Minton,
Tim Collins, Andrew Willson, Robert Baldwin and Koen Van Waerebeek - 1
Aves
Morphometric and morphological differentiation of the subspecies of Phasianus
colchicus (Linnaeus, 1758) on the Iranian Plateau (Aves: Galliformes) – Nasrin Kayvanfar, Mansour Aliabadian and Seyed Mahmoud
Ghasempouri - 9
Reptilia
The male reproductive cycle of the Dice Snake, Natrix tessellata
(Serpentes: Colubridae), in northern Iran – Reza
Babaei Savasari, Abdolhossein Shiravi and Vida Hojati - 18
Distribution and status of sea turtle nesting and mortality along the
North Sinai coast, Egypt (Reptilia: Cheloniidae) – Basem
Rabia and Omar Attum - 26
Rediscovery of Maynard’s Longnose Sand Snake, Lytorhynchus maynardi,
with the geographic distribution of the genus Lytorhynchus Peters, 1863
in Iran – Soheila Shafiei, Hadi Fahimi, Mohammad
Ebrahim Sehhatisabet and Naeim Moradi – 32
Chondrichthyes
Diet composition of the Thornback Ray, Raja clavata Linnaeus,
1758 (Elasmobranchii: Rajidae) in the Turkish Aegean Sea – Elizabeth Grace Tunka Eronat and Okan Özaydın - 38
Insecta
Ooencyrtus ferdowsii sp.
n. (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), an egg parasitoid of Osphranteria coerulescens
(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Iran – Ebrahim
Ebrahimi, Gholam-Reza Tavakoli Korghond, Kamal Mianbandi, Hadi Mahmoodi, Kazem
Mohammadipour and John Noyes - 45
First description of the queen of the ant Solenopsis saudiensis
Sharaf & Aldawood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia – Mostafa R. Sharaf, Shehzad Salman and Abdulrahman S.
Aldawood - 50
Descriptions of little-known and unknown morphs of Zelkovaphis caucasica
(Hemiptera: Aphididae: Eriosomatinae), with an analysis of its phylogenetic
position – Masakazu Sano, Shalva Barjadze and
Shin-ichi Akimoto - 55
Review of the genus Catomus Allard, 1876 (Coleoptera:
Tenebrionidae) in Iran – Maxim Nabozhenko - 64
Arachnida
Gylippus (Hemigylippus) bayrami
sp. n. from Turkey with comparative remarks on the species of the subgenus Gylippus
(Hemigylippus) Birula (Solifugae: Gylippidae) – Melek Erdek - 69
New records of the huntsman spider genus Olios (Araneae:
Sparassidae) from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan – Majid
Moradmand, Omid Mirshamsi Kakhki and Vladimir Hula - 76
Three new mites of the genus Pseudolaelaps Berlese, 1916 (Acari:
Mesostigmata, Pseudolaelapidae) from Iran, with an updated key to known species
– Peter Mašán, Jalil Hajizadeh and Sara Ramroodi
- 81
Short Communications
Some new aphid records for the Turkish aphidofauna (Hemiptera:
Aphidoidae) – Özhan Şenol, Hayal
Akyıldırım Beğen, Gazi Görür and Gizem Gezici - 90
First record of Capparimyia savastani (Martelli, 1911) in
Lebanon (Diptera: Tephritidae) – Zinette Moussa
and Dany Yammouni - 93
Volume
60, Issue 4 (2014)
Mammalia
A new cytotype (2n=46) of Nannospalax xanthodon from
Turkey – Atilla Arslan, Jan Zima, Tarkan
Yorulmaz, and Emine Arslan
Genetic structure and differentiation of four populations of Afghan Pika
(Ochotona rufescens) in Iran based on mitochondrial cytochrome b
gene – Olyagholi Khalilipour, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Afshin
Alizadeh Shabani,
Mohammad Kaboli, and Sohrab Ashrafi
Reptilia
Post-nesting migrations patterns of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas)
from the Egyptian Red Sea – Omar
Attum, Andrew Kramer, Tamer Mahmoud, and Moustafa Fouda
New locality records for four rare species of vipers (Reptilia: Viperidae)
in Turkey – Bayram Göçmen, Konrad Mebert, Naşit İğci,
Bahadır Akman, Mehmet Zülfü
Yıldız, Mehmet Anıl Oğuz, and Çağatay Altın
Distribution and male reproductive system of the Bridled Mabuya, Trachylepis
vittata (Olivier, 1804) (Reptilia: Scincidae), in Lebanon – Fida Nassar and Souad Hraoui-Bloquet
Re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of sand boas of the genus Eryx
(Daudin, 1803) (Serpentes: Boidae) in north-eastern Iran – Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Naeimeh Eskandarzadeh,
Jamshid Darvish
Crustacea
Shell selection behaviour and spatial distribution of three species of
intertidal hermit crabs from Hormuz Island, Persian Gulf (Crustacea:
Paguroidea) – Jafar Seyfabadi, Nabiallah Kheirabadi, Fereidoon Owfi,
Alireza Mahvary
Remarks on the deep-sea decapod fauna of the Sea of Marmara (Crustacea:
Decapoda) – Bülent Topaloğlu
Hexapoda
Ultrastructural analysis of the internal sac in several species of the
weevil tribe Phyllobiini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) – Mahmut Erbey and Selami Candan
The genera Stegastopsis Kraatz, 1865 and Orostegastopsis Koch,
1962 with description of O. planioculata sp. n. from Oman (Coleoptera:
Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini) – Martin
Lillig
Arachnida
A new pseudoscorpion species of the genus Calocheiridius Beier
& Turk (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Olpiidae) from Iran – Mahrad Nassirkhani
New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae) – Alireza Zamani, Zahra Nikmagham, Maryam Allahdadi,
Fereshteh Ghassemzadeh, and Omid Mirshamsi
Short Communications
First record of the goby Buenia affinis Iljin, 1930 (Gobiidae)
from the Aegean Sea and Sea of Marmara –
Semih Engin, Arif Can Keskin, Tolga Akdemir, and Dilruba Seyhan
Odonata fauna of Khuzestan province (Iran) with a note on an Oriental
species Trithemis aurora (Burmeister, 1839) as a new record for the south-west
of Iran – Yaser Bakhshi and Saber Sadeghi
The first record of Ecrobia maritima (Milaschewitsch,
1916) from the Aegean coast of Turkey (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) – Aydın Örstan and Martin Haase
Volume
60, Issue 3 (2014)
Mammalia
Population status, distribution, and conservation of the Chinkara, Gazella bennettii, in Iran (Mammalia: Bovidae) –
Hassan Akbari, Hosein Varasteh Moradi,
Jalil Sarhangzadeh, Bahman Shams Esfandabad
Patterns of sexual dimorphism in the Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus
saxicolor) and implications for sex differentiation – Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Mohammad Kaboli, Mahmoud Karami,
Hamid Farahmand
Reptilia
Modelling the potential distribution of the Bridled Skink, Trachylepis
vittata (Olivier, 1804), in the Middle East. – Razieh Fattahi, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Nasrullah
Rastegar-Pouyani, Aziz Avcı, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Çetin Ilgaz, Seyyed
Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani
Hexapoda
A contribution to the Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of
Turkey. – Matthias Riedel, Janko Kolarov, Saliha
Çoruh, Hikmet Özbek
A new species of Onychopterochelius Blüthgen (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Turkey. – Erol
Yıldırım
Morphometric characterisation of the native Honeybee, Apis mellifera
Linnaeus, 1758, of Saudi Arabia. – Yehya
Alattal, Ahmad Al Ghamdi, Mohamad Al Sharhi, Stephan Fuchs
Contribution to knowledge of the leafroller fauna (Lepidoptera:
Tortricidae) of Turkey. – Mustafa
Özdemir, Selma Seven Çalışkan
The genera Philhammus and Cnemeplatia (Coleoptera:
Tenebrionidae: Cnemeplatiini) in the Arabian Peninsula, with taxonomic and
faunistic remarks on additional species. – Wolfgang Schawaller, Hathal M. Al Dhafer, Ali A.
Elgharbawy
Redescription of Plutomurus kelasuricus Martynova, 1969
(Collembola: Tomoceridae) from Georgian caves. – Shalva Barjadze, Revaz Djanashvili
Arachnida
First data about cave spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran. – Yuri M. Marusik, Ahmad Nadimi, Mikhail M. Omelko, Seppo
Koponen
A new species of the genus Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae:
Theraphosidae) from Turkey. – Aydın
Topçu, Nurcan Demircan
Redescription and remarks on the species Minniza persica
(Pseudoscorpiones: Olpiidae) from Iran. – Mahrad Nassirkhani, Reza Vafai Shoushtari
Short Communications
A new sighting of the Mediterranean Monk Seal, Monachus monachus
(Hermann, 1779), in the Marmara Sea (Turkey). – Özgür Emek Inanmaz, Özgür Değirmenci, Ali Cemal Gücü
A new record of the Blue-Barred Parrotfish, Scarus ghobban
(Actinopterygii: Scaridae), from the coastal waters of Cyprus. – Halit Filiz, Nail Sevingel
Volume
60, Issue 2 (2014)
Mammalia
Low gene flow between Iranian Grey Wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs
documented using uniparental genetic markers. – Marzieh Asadi Aghbolaghi, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Massimo
Scandura, and Mohammad Kaboli
Wildlife conflicts between humans and Brown Bears, Ursus arctos,
in the Central Zagros, Iran. – Ali Turk
Qashqaei, Mahmoud Karami, and Vahid Etemad
Aves
On the diet of the Pharaoh Eagle Owl, Bubo ascalaphus
(Savigny, 1809), in Qatar, with an overview of its feeding habits. – Ivan Mohedano, Mohammad A. Abu Baker, Brian Hunter, Jamie
Buchan, Christopher J. Michaels, and Nobuyuki Yamaguchi
Reptilia
Sexual size dimorphism in Darevskia raddei (Sauria:
Lacertidae) from northwestern Iran. – Amir
Dehghani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani,
Seyed Mahdi Banan-Khojasteh, and Alireza Mohammadpour
Distribution pattern of the Snake-eyed Lizard, Ophisops elegans
Ménétriés, 1832 (Squamata: Lacertidae), in Iran – Hamzeh
Oraie, Hassan Rahimian, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani,
Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, and Azar
Khosravani
Osteichthyes
Morphological divergence in the Walton’s Mudskipper, Periophthalmus
waltoni Koumans, 1941, from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman (Gobioidei:
Gobiidae). – Mehdi Ghanbarifardi, Mansour
Aliabadian, Hamid Reza Esmaeili, and Gianluca Polgar
Chondrichthyes
Records of Himantura granulata (Dasyatidae) and Rhinoptera
jayakari (Rhinopteridae) from the Red Sea – Sergey V. Bogorodsky, Peter R. Last, Tilman J. Alpermann,
and Ahmad O. Mal
Hexapoda
Contribution to the knowledge of the Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) fauna
of Turkey – Janko Kolarov, Erol
Yıldırım, Saliha Çoruh, and Murat Yüksel
Checklist of the springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) of Turkey – Hasan Sevgili and Muhammed Ali Özata
Arachnida
Scorpions of the genus Odontobuthus Vachon, 1950 (Scorpiones:
Buthidae) from Iran: Phylogenetic relationships inferred from mitochondrial DNA
sequence data. – Sara Azghadi, Omid
Mirshamsi, Shahrokh Navidpour, and Mansour Aliabadian
Short Communications
First confirmed records of Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat, Rhinopoma cystops
Thomas, 1903, for Sinai, Egypt (Mammalia: Chiroptera) – Jill Carpenter, Zsolt Hegyeli, Sebastian Bugariu, and
István Moldován
Paddyfield Pipit (Anthus rufulus) in south-eastern Iran: a
species new to the Middle East. – Raffael
Ayé, Tobias Roth, and Thomas Stalling
Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl, 1797), Nemipterus
zysron (Bleeker, 1856) and Parascolopsis eriomma (Jordan &
Richardson, 1909) (Osteichthyes: Lophiidae and Nemipteridae) in the
marine waters of Iraq – Laith A.
Jawad and Majid E. Al-Badri
Volume
60, Issue 1 (2014)
Mammalia
A camera trapping survey reveals a melanistic Grey Wolf (Canis lupus)
in an unusual habitat in Turkey (Mammalia: Carnivora) – Yasin İlemin
Breeding distribution and conservation of the Crab Plover (Dromas
ardeola) in Saudi Arabia (Aves: Charadriiformes) – Mohammed Almalki, Monif AlRashidi, Mohammed Shobrak, and
Tamás Székely
Prey selection of the Barbary Falcon (Falco pelegrinoides)
in south-western Iran – Arya
Shafaeipour
Nest-site selection by the Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator) in
Boroyeh Wildlife Sanctuary, Inner Iran – Shirin Aghanajafizadeh, Kian Eslami, Hosein Abbasian, and
Fatolah Heydari
Osteichthyes
Relationship between sagittal otolith size and fish size in Argentina
sphyraena and Glossanodon leioglossus (Osteichthyes:
Argentinidae) in the southern Aegean Sea, Turkey – Gökçe Bilge and Anıl Gülşahin
Phylogenetic relationships of the tooth-carp Aphanius (Teleostei:
Cyprinodontidae) in the river systems of southern and south-western Iran based
on mtDNA sequences – Hamid Reza
Esmaeili, Azad Teimori, Golnaz Sayyadzadeh, Mojtaba Masoudi, and Bettina
Reichenbacher
Mollusca
First record of the North American cryptic invader Ferrissia fragilis
(Tryon, 1863) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in the Middle East – Federico Marrone, Murtada D. Naser, Amaal Gh. Yasser,
Francesco Sacco, and Marco Arculeo
Two invasive freshwater snails new to Jordan (Mollusca: Gastropoda) – Hussain Nasarat, Zuhair Amr, and Eike Neubert
Insecta
Zoogeographical affinities and faunal relationships of bee flies
(Diptera: Bombyliidae) in Egypt – Magdi
El-Hawagry and Francis Gilbert
A vision system for automatic identification of butterfly species using
a grey-level co-occurrence matrix and multinomial logistic regression – Lokman Kayci and Yılmaz Kaya
Wasps of the subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Iran – Samira Farahani, Ali Asghar Talebi, and Ehsan Rakhshani
Arachnida
Description of a new Aelurillus species from Khorasan province of
Iran, with comments on A. concolor Kulczyński, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae) – Galina N.
Azarkina and Omid Mirshamsi
Short Communications
New records of snakes from Iraq (Reptilia: Colubridae) – Saman R. Afrasiab and Sarbaz I. Mohamad
Volume
59, Issue 4 (2013)
Mammalia
On the genetic diversity of spiny mice (genus Acomys) and gerbils
(genus Gerbillus) in the Arabian Peninsula – Timothy C. Bray, Nigel C. Bennett, and Osama B. Mohammed – 283
Aves
Population size and breeding success of the Cinereous Vulture, Aegypius
monachus, in a newly found breeding area in western Anatolia (Aves:
Falconiformes) – Cihangir Kirazlı
and Elif Yamaç – 289
Reptilia
Sexual dimorphism and female reproductive cycle in the scincid lizard Trachylepis
vittata (Olivier, 1804) in Lebanon (Reptilia: Scincidae) – Fida Nassar, Marie Challita, Riad Sadek, and Souad
Hraoui-Bloquet – 297
Sexual size dimorphism in Ophisops elegans (Squamata:
Lacertidae) in Iran – Hamzeh
Oraie, Hassan Rahimian, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Azar Khosravani, and
Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani – 302
Osteichthyes
New records and uncommon occurrences of deep-water fishes in the Turkish
editerranean Sea (Osteichthyes) – Mehmet
Cengiz Deval – 308
Crustacea
Cytherella maremensis
sp. n., a new ostracod from the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) (Crustacea: Ostracoda)
– M. Levent Artüz, Dinçer Gülen, and Cüneyt
Kubanç – 314
Insecta
New records for the bee fauna of Iran (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) – Samad Khaghaninia, Yasemin Güler, and Fatih Dikmen – 319
On the eucerine bees of Fars province, Iran (Hymenoptera: Apidae:
Eucerini) – Razeyeh Khodaparast and Alireza Monfared – 326
The genera Cneocnemis Gebien and Cenoscelis Wollaston in Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Ulomini) – Wolfgang Schawaller, Ashraf M. El Torkey, and Hathal M.
Al Dhafer – 342
Arachnida
The spider family Hersiliidae Thorell, 1870 (Arachnida: Araneae) in Iran – Omid
Mirshamsi, Yuri M. Marusik, and Esmat Jamili – 347
Prozercon iranensis sp. n., a new species of Zerconidae
(Acari: Mesostigmata) from Iran – Zsolt Ujvári,
Hossein Moradian, and Hadi Ostovan –353
Short Communications
First record of the Sand Cat, Felis margarita Loche, 1858
(Mammalia: Carnivora, Felidae), from Iraq – Mohammad K. Mohammad, Saman R. Lahony,and Hayder M. Al-Rammahi – 358
New records of Muscidae (Diptera) in the west of Iran – Salah Moradi, Adrian Pont, Mousa Tavassoli, and Soraya
Naem – 360
Volume
59, Issue 3 (2013)
Mammalia
Torsten Wronski: Population development of Arabian Gazelles (Gazella
arabica) on the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (Mammalia: Bovidae) - 189
Aves
Christoph Randler: Do migrants influence the foraging behaviour of the
insectivorous Cyprus Wheatear, Oenanthe cypriaca, at a stopover
site? (Aves: Passeriformes) - 196
Reginald Victor and Jayanthi R. Victor: Invasive on invasive – On the feeding ecology of the
Ring-necked Parakeet, Psittacula krameri, in Oman (Aves:
Psittacidae) - 203
Reptilia
Asghar Mobaraki, Elham Abtin, Haji Gholi Kami, and Bahram
H. Kiabi: Reproductive biology of the Mugger Crocodile, Crocodylus
palustris, in Iran (Reptilia: Crocodylidae) - 207
Reza Yadollahvand, Haji Gholi Kami, and Mohammad Reza
Kalbassi: Cytogenetic
characterisation of the Caspian Pond Turtle, Mauremys caspica, in
Golestan and Mazandaran provinces, Iran (Reptilia: Testudines) - 214
Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Eskandar
Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Rafaqat Masroor, and Jiří Šmíd: Modelling the potential distribution of Mesalina watsonana
(Stoliczka, 1872) (Reptilia: Lacertidae) on the Iranian Plateau - 220
Amphibia
Pritpal Soorae, Johannes Els, Drew Gardner, and Husam El
Alqamy: Distribution and ecology of the Arabian and Dhofar Toads (Duttaphrynus
arabicus and D. dhufarensis) in the United Arab Emirates and
adjacent areas of northern Oman - 229
Osteichthyes
Mahmut Elp, Müfit Özuluğ, Fazıl Şen, and
Jörg Freyhof: Validation of Alburnus timarensis from the Lake Van basin,
eastern Anatolia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) - 235
Seyedeh Mojgan Kalantarian, Asghar Abdoli, and Bahram H.
Kiabi: Feeding strategy of
the Deepwater Goby, Chasar bathybius, in the Southern Caspian Sea
(Osteichthyes: Gobiidae) - 245
Mollusca
Judith Ullmann: Population status of giant clams (Mollusca:
Tridacnidae) in the northern Red Sea, Egypt - 253
Insecta
Saliha Çoruh and Janko Kolarov: New data on Turkish Acaenitinae (Hymenoptera:
Ichneumonidae) with description of a new species - 261
Saeed Mohamadzade Namin and Elena P. Kameneva : A new species of the genus Herina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 from
Iran and Turkey (Diptera: Ulidiidae) - 266
Ahmed M. Soliman and Neveen S. Gadallah: Taxonomic revision of the genus Gynecaptera
Skorikov, 1935 from Egypt, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera:
Bradynobaenidae, Apterogyninae) - 273
Short Communications
Abbas Ashoori and Yaqoub Rakhshbhar: Nestling diet of the Purple Heron, Ardea purpurea, in
Anzali wetland, Northern Iran (Aves: Ardeidae) - 280
Volume
59, Issue 2 (2013)
Mammalia
Atilla Arslan, Apdil Arısoy, and Jan Zima: The chromosome banding pattern in two cytotypes (2n = 36 and 38) of blind
mole rats from Turkey (Mammalia: Spalaxidae)
Boris Kryštufek, Mounir Abi-Said, and Matjaž Hladnik: The Iranian vole Microtus irani occurs in Lebanon (Mammalia: Rodentia)
Aves
Omar F. Al-Sheikhly, Iyad Nader, and Filippo Barbanera: Breeding ecology of the Basra Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus griseldis, in
Iraq (Aves: Passeriformes: Acrocephalidae)
Erdem Hızal: Diet of the Long-eared Owl, Asio otus, in Central Anatolia (Aves:
Strigidae)
Damla Beton, Barış Saydam, and Robin Snape: Status and ecology of the Bonelli’s Eagle, Aquila fasciatus, in the
Pentadaktylos Mountain Range, Cyprus (Aves: Falconiformes)
Reptilia
Göran Nilson and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani: The occurence of Telescopus nigriceps (Ahl, 1924) in western Iran, with
comments on the genus Telescopus (Serpentes: Colubridae)
Adel A. Ibrahim and Moustafa H. El-Naggar: Diet and reproductive biology of the Starred Agama, Laudakia stellio
(Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata: Agamidae), in the northern Sinai, Egypt
Insecta
Alime Bayındır, Mehmet Faruk Gürbüz, Toshko
Ljubomirov, and Daniel Pohl: Diversity of digger
wasps in Kasnak Oak Forest Nature Reserve, Isparta, Turkey, with records of
eight species new to Turkey (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Crabronidae and
Ampulicidae)
Wolfgang Schawaller, Hathal M. Al Dhafer, and Hassan H.
Fadl: Boromorphus saudicus sp. n., a new record of the genus
from the Arabian Peninsula (Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Boromorphini)
Rüdiger Wagner, Hasan Koç, Okan Özgül, and Alper Tonguç: New moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Turkey
Arachnida
Mohammad A. Akrami and Forough Ebrahimi: A new species of the genus Pergalumna Grandjean, 1936 from Iran (Acari:
Oribatida: Galumnidae)
Short Communications
Omar F. Al-Sheikhly and David Mallon: The Small Asian Mongoose, Herpestes javanicus,and the Indian Grey
Mongoose, Herpestes edwardsii in Iraq (Mammalia: Carnivora: Herpestidae)
Malek Ali, Adib Saad, Christian Reynaud, and Christian
Capapé: First records of the Round Fantail Stingray, Taeniura grabata
(Chondrichthyes: Dasyatidae), off the Syrian coast (eastern Mediterranean)
Bella S. Galil: Going going gone: the loss of a reef building gastropod (Mollusca:
Caenogastropoda: Vermetidae) in the southeast Mediterranean Sea
Mehmet Gökoğlu and Yaşar Özvarol: The Southern Brown Shrimp, Farfantepenaeus subtilis (Pérez Farfante,
1967) (Decapoda: Penaeidae), a new migrant in the Mediterranean Sea
Mahmoud Soufi, Hiva Nasserzadeh, Haji Gholi Kami, Bahram
Zehzad, Bahram Hasan Zadeh Kiabi, and Ali Turk Qashqaei: First record of the Truly Aquatic Spider, Argyroneta aquatica (Clerck,
1757) in Iran (Araneae: Cybaeidae)
Volume
59, Issue 1 (2013)
Mammalia
Mozafar Sharifi and Somaye Vaissi: Postnatal growth in the Long-fingered Bat, Miniopterus schreibersii
pallidus, in Iran (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae)
Aves
Hakan Karaardıç and Leyla Özkan: Breeding ecology of the Greater Short-toed Lark (Calandrella brachydactyla)
in southern Turkey (Aves: Passeriformes)
Reptilia
Ahmad Gharzi and Afsaneh Yari : Age determination in the Snake-eyed Lizard, Ophisops elegans,
by means of skeletochronology (Reptilia: Lacertidae)
Stephen R. Goldberg: Reproduction in Bosk’s Fringe-fingered Lizard, Acanthodactylus boskianus
from Israel (Squamata: Lacertidae)
Vida Hojati, Kazem Parivar, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani,
and Abdolhossein Shiravi: Observations on the
spermatogenic cycle of the Caspian Bent-toed Gecko, Cyrtopodion caspium,
in Iran (Sauria: Gekkonidae)
Bektaş Sönmez, Cemal Turan, and Şükran
Yalçın Özdilek: Comparison of the
physical properties of two Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting
beaches (Akyatan and Samandağ) in the eastern Mediterranean (Reptilia:
Cheloniidae)
Osteichthyes
Yusuf Bektaş, Ali Osman Beldüz, and Davut Turan: The phylogenetic position of Turkish populations within the European
Bitterling, Rhodeus amarus (Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae)
Hasan Fazli, Mohammad Ali Afraei Bandpei, Reza
Pourgholam, and Aboulghasem Roohi: Long-term
changes in fecundity of the Kutum, Rutilus frisii kutum
Kamensky, 1901, in the Caspian Sea (Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae)
Crustacea
Jafar Seyfabadi, Milad Motazedi, Saber Khodabandeh,
Nabiallah Kheirabadi, and Mohsen Safaei: Shell selection in the Land Hermit Crab, Coenobita scaevola
(Forskål, 1775), from Larak Island, Persian Gulf (Decapoda: Coenobitidae)
Arachnida
Mykola M. Kovblyuk, Zoya A. Kastrygina, Yuri M. Marusik,
and Mikhail M. Omelko: Redescription of
the spider Haplodrassus caspius Ponomarev & Belosludtsev,
2008, with the first description of the male (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Ibrahim N. A. Salman, Michael Salsaa’,
Zuhair S. Amr: Records of scorpions from the Palestinian
Territories, with the first chromosomal data (Arachnida: Scorpiones)
Ayşe Toluk and Nusret Ayyıldız: New and unrecorded oribatid mites from Kahramanmaraş province in
Turkey (Acari: Orbatida)
Raşit Urhan and Murat Öztaş: A new species of mite from Turkey: Zercon mirabilis sp.
n. (Acari: Zerconidae)
Short Communications
Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Hashem Malekzehi, Abdolrahim Pazira,
and Jörg Freyhof: First record of the
Kalabans, Bangana dero (Hamilton, 1822), from Iran (Teleostei:
Cyprinidae)
Aydın Topçu, Osman Seyyar, Nurcan Demircan: A contribution to the cave spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae)
Nurçin Gülşahin, Ahmet Nuri Tarkan, and Gökçen
Bilge: The hydrozoan Geryonia proboscidalis
(Forskål, 1775), new for Turkey (Hydrozoa)
Volume
58 (2012)
Insecta
John C. Deeming, Hathal M. Al-Dhafer: Chloropidae from the Arabian Peninsula (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha): 3-88-
Volume
57 (2012)
Mammalia
Ahmed Boug, M. Zafar-ul Islam, Abdullah Al Shehry,
Torsten Wronski: Camera trapping confirms the persistence of Arabian Gazelles, Gazella
arabica, in the Asir Mountains, Saudi Arabia (Mammalia: Bovidae): 3. – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Aves
Shirin Aghanajafizadeh, Mahmoud R. Hemami, Fatholah
Heydari: Nest-site selection
by the Asian Houbara Bustard, Chlamydotis macqueenii, in the
steppe of Harat, Iran (Aves: Otidae): 11
Kiraz Erciyas Yavuz, Nizamettin Yavuz, José Tavares, Y.
Sancar Baris: Nesting habits and breeding
success of the White Stork, Ciconia ciconia, in the
Kiziliırmak delta, Turkey (Aves: Ciconiidae): 19. – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Bekir Kabasakal, Tamer Albayrak: Offspring sex ratios and breeding success of a population of the Great
Tit, Parus major (Aves: Passeriformes): 27
Fares Khoury, Natalia Boulad, Mohammed Janaydeh: Territory size variations in wintering Finsch’s Wheatears, Oenanthe
finschii (Aves: Passeriformes): 35
Mohammed Shobrak: Electrocution and collision of birds with power lines in Saudi Arabia
(Aves): 45. – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Reptilia
Mohsen Rezaie-Atagholipour, Alireza Riyahi-Bakhtiari,
Mehdi Rajabizadeh, Parviz Ghezellou Status of the Annulated Sea Snake, Hydrophis cyanocinctus,
in the Hara Protected Area of the Persian Gulf (Reptilia: Elaphidae:
Hydrophiinae): 53
Uri Shanas, Müge Gidiş, Yakup Kaska, Yael Kimalov,
Oren Rosner, Rachel Ben-Shlomo: The Nile
Soft-shell Turtle, Trionyx triunguis, of Israel and Turkey: Two
genetically indistinguishable populations? (Reptilia: Testudines:
Trionychidae): 61 – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Eyup Başkale, Uğur Kaya: Decline of the Levantine Frog, Pelophylax bedriagae
Camerano, 1882, in the western Aegean Region of Turkey: changes in population
size and implications for conservation (Amphibia: Ranidae): 69
Osteichthyes
Miriam Reininger Diversity and abundance of wrasse species in the Gulf
of Aqaba (Osteichthyes: Labridae): 77
Mollusca
Peter Glöer, Aref Dia, Gerhard Falkner: The genus Pseudobithynia in Lebanon, with a
redescription of three species and additional notes on its ecology (Mollusca:
Bithyniidae): 87. – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Insecta
Alghamdi Ahmed, Alsharhi Mohammad, Alattal Yehya, Adgaba
Nuru: Morphometric diversity of indigenous Honeybees, Apis
mellifera (Linnaeus, 1758), in Saudi Arabia (Insecta: Apidae): 97. – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Erol Atay, Nicklas Jansson, Tolga Gürkan: Saproxylic beetles on old hollow oaks (Quercus spp.) in a small
isolated area in southern Turkey (Insecta: Coleoptera): 105. – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Hasan Koç, Okan Özgül, Alper Tonguç, Murat Barlas: The Tipulidae fauna of southwestern Turkey (Insecta: Diptera:
Nematocera): 115
Fariba Mozaffarian, Allen F. Sanborn: Two new species of Tettigetta Kolenati from Iran (Hemiptera:
Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae): 119
Adrian C. Pont, Karine Harutyunova, Maria Harutyunova,
Doreen Werner: The hunter-flies of Armenia. III.
New records of the genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, with the
description of a new species (Insecta: Diptera: Muscidae): 127. – OPEN ACCESS (Free
download)
Short Communications
Masaa M. Al Jumaily, Waleed A. M. Al Rayl, Murad M.
Abdulla Naji: First record of Blanford’s Fox, Vulpes
cana Blanford, 1877, for Yemen (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae): 137
Abbas Ashoori, Saeid Naderi, Ahmad Barati: Nestling diet of the Grey Heron, Ardea cinerea, in
Siahkeshim, Northern Iran (Aves: Ardeidae): 139
Matthias Olthoff, Dietmar Ikemeyer: Dragonflies of a peat bog in northwestern Turkey (Odonata: Anisoptera,
Zygoptera): 142
Tarık Danisman, Ilhan Cosar: Orchestina topcui sp.
n., a new spider from Turkey (Araneae: Oonopidae): 146
Volume
56 (2012)
Aves
Shirin Aghanajafizadeh, Mahmoud R. Hemami, Gholamreza
Naderi, Fatholah Heydari: Estimation of Houbara
Bustard, Chlamydotis macqueenii, population density in the
central Iranian steppes (Aves: Otidae)
Sàlim Javed, Shahid B. Khan, Christophe Tourenq, Frederic
Launay, Jorge Merritt: Nesting, distribution
and conservation of the Crab Plover, Dromas ardeola, in the
United Arab Emirates (Aves: Dromadidae)
Reptilia
Pierangelo Crucitti, Federica Emiliani: Morphological variability of the Spur-thighed Tortoise, Testudo graeca,
in the Nemrut Volcano (Eastern Turkey) (Testudines: Testudinidae)
Stephen R. Goldberg: Reproduction in the Desert Lacerta, Mesalina guttulata,
from Israel (Squamata: Lacertidae)
Yehudah L. Werner, Oren Gajst, Roy Talbi, Amos Bouskila: Acanthodactylus opheodurus
Arnold, 1980 in the Levant revisited, and the striped patterns of Levantine Acanthodactylus
(Reptilia: Lacertidae)
Savvas Zotos, Chloe Adamopoulou, Bassilis Chondropoulos,
Costas Kadis, Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis, Anastasios Legakis: Evidence of sperm storage in Schreiber’s Fringe-fingered Lizard, Acanthodactylus
schreiberi schreiberi, from Cyprus (Reptilia: Lacertidae)
Osteichthyes
Asghar Abdoli, Saeedeh Allahyari, Rahman Patimar, Bahram
H. Kiabi: Feeding strategies of three Neogobius species
in the Gomishan Wetland of Iran, South-east Caspian Sea (Osteichthyes:
Gobiidae)
Cahit Kasımoğlu, Fevzi Yılmaz: Feeding habits of the Thin-lipped Grey Mullet, Liza ramada, in Gökova
Bay in the southern Aegean Sea (Osteichthyes: Mugilidae)
Insecta
Ebrahim Ebrahimi, James M. Carpenter: Distribution pattern of the hornets Vespa orientalis and V.
crabro in Iran (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
Andrew D. Liston, Hans-Joachim Jacobs: Review of the sawfly fauna of Cyprus, with descriptions of two new
species (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Doreen Werner, Helge Kampen: Simulium (Boophthora) erythrocephalum
(De Geer, 1776) – a subgenus and species new to Armenia (Diptera: Simuliidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Jean-Luc Gattolliat, Laurent Vuataz, Michel Sartori: First contribution to the mayflies of Jordan (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Arachnida
Yuri M. Marusik, Francesco Ballarin, Mikhail M. Omelko: On the Pardosa monticola-species group from Iran (Araneae:
Lycosidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Raşit Urhan: Two new species of Zercon C. L. Koch, 1836 from Turkey (Acari:
Zerconidae)
Short Communications
Mahdieh Tourani, Ehsan M. Moqanaki, Bahram H. Kiabi: Vulnerability of Striped Hyaenas, Hyaena hyaena, in a
human-dominated landscape of Central Iran
Mounir R. Abi-Said, Boris Kryštufek: First record of the Forest Dormouse, Dryomys nitedula
(Pallas, 1799), in Lebanon (Mammalia: Rodentia)
Laith A. Jawad, Juma M. Al-Mamry, Haithem K. Al-Busaidi: First reliable record of the Sicklefin Chimaera, Neoharriotta
pinnata (Schnakenbeck, 1931), from the northern Arabian Sea (Chondrichthyes:
Rhinochimaeridae)
Canan Hazır, Nevin Keskin, Erwin Scheuchl: First record of four species of Andrena sand bees in Turkey
(Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Andrenidae)
Shalva Barjadze, Hans-Jürgen Schulz, Ulrich Burkhardt,
Mikhail B. Potapov, Maka Murvanidze: New records for the Georgian springtail fauna (Collembola)
Tahir Özcan, Halil Erdoğan, Christopher Ashelby: First record of Palaemonetes mesopotamicus Pesta, 1913
(Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Turkey
Cem Cevik, Levent Cavas, Deniz Erguden, Cemal Turan: A second observation of Dendrodoris fumata (Rüppell &
Leuckart, 1830) from the Mediterranean Sea (Nudibranchia: Dendrodorididae)
Fethi Bengil, Murat Özaydınlı, Şebnem
Kuşcu, Kemal Can Bizsel: Morphometric
study on the brittlestar, Amphiura chiajei Forbes, 1843
(Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), in the Aegean Sea
Volume
55 (2012)
Mammalia
Torsten Wronski, Khalid Alageel, Martin Plath, Mohamed A.
Sandouka: Twenty years of
monitoring a re-introduced population of Mountain Gazelles, Gazella gazella
(Pallas, 1776), in the Ibex Reserve, Saudi Arabia
Aves
Maryam Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, Mitra Shariati Najafabadi,
Mohammad Kaboli, Azita Farashi, David Spiering: Habitat requirements of the Black Woodpecker, Dryocopus
martius, in Hyrcanian forests, Iran
Grzegorz Kopij, Ifat Liven-Schulman: Diet of the Lesser Kestrel, Falco naumanni,
in Israel
Reptilia
Nastaran Heidari, Hiva Faizi, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani:
Sexual dimorphism in Blanford’s Fringe-toed Lizard, Acanthodactylus
blanfordi Boulenger, 1918, from Southern Iran
Osteichthyes
Mario Freinschlag, Robert A. Patzner: Shrimp-gobies in the southern Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea)
(Osteichthyes: Gobiidae)
Crustacea
Murat Özbek: A new freshwater
amphipod species, Gammarus katagani sp. nov., from Turkey
(Amphipoda: Gammaridae)
Insecta
Maximilian Fischer, Ahmed Beyarslan: New species of Synaldis Foerster and Idiasta
Foerster, and further records of Turkish Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae:
Alysiinae)
Sakine Hossein Nezhad, Shahrokh Pashaei Rad, Fateme
Firouzi, Donat Agosti: New and additional records for the ant fauna from Iran (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Janko Kolarov, Saliha Çoruh: Stilbopinae, a subfamily new for the Turkish fauna
(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
Adrian C. Pont, Karine Harutyunova, Maria Harutyunova,
Doreen Werner: The hunter-flies of Armenia. II. The
genus Lispe Latreille, 1796 (Insecta: Diptera: Muscidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Arachnida
Tarik Danisman, Zafer Sancak, Melek Erdek, Ilhan Cosar: A new species of the genus Hersiliola Thorell, 1870
from Turkey (Araneae: Hersiliidae)
Hayriye Karabulut, Tuncay Türkeş: Description of the females of the spiders Plesiophantes
joosti Heimer, 1981 and Araeoncus clavatus Tanasevitch,
1987 from Turkey (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
Matthew R. Graham, Viktória Oláh-Hemmings, Victor Fet: Phylogeography of co-distributed dune scorpions identifies the Amu Darya
River as a long-standing component of Central Asian biogeography (Scorpiones:
Buthidae) – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Ayşegül Karataş, Muhammed Mouradi Garkheloo,
Münir Uçak: Contribution to the
distribution of the scorpions of Iran (Arachnida: Scorpiones)
Wilson R. Lourenço, Bernard Duhem: Two new species of scorpions from the Arabian Peninsula belonging
to the genera Butheolus Simon and Compsobuthus Vachon
(Scorpiones: Buthidae)
Short Communications
Alaettin Kaya, Yüksel Coşkun: A new chromosomal form of Meriones tristrami
Thomas, 1892 (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) in South-east Anatolia
Nuray Güven Veryeri: Postmortem examinations of stranded dolphins found on the Black Sea coast
near Ordu, Turkey (Mammalia: Cetacea)
Vida Hojati, Afshin Faghiri, Abdolhossein Shiravi: Diet of the Grass Snake, Natrix natrix (Linnaeus,
1758) (Serpentes: Colubridae), in northern Iran
Yaşar Özvarol, Mehmet Gökoğlu: First record of the Indo-Pacific Milkfish, Chanos chanos
(Forskål, 1775), in the Turkish Mediterranean Sea
Fabio Cassola, Drew Gardner, Gary R. Feulner, Brigitte
Howarth: Callytron monalisa
(W. Horn, 1927) from the Arabian Peninsula (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
Mohammad Ali Akrami: A new species of the oribatid mite genus Berniniella
Balogh, 1983 from Iran (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae)
Volume
54 (2011)
Aves
Ortaç Onmuş, Mehmet Sıkı, Gürdoğar
Sarıgül, Alain J. Crivelli: Status and development of the population of the globally threatened
Dalmatian Pelican, Pelecanus crispus, in Turkey - 3
Reptilia
Saman R. Afrasiab, Sarbaz I. Mohamad: First record of the Rat
Snake, Zamenis hohenackeri (Strauch, 1873), from north-eastern
Iraq with notes on other colubrid snakes - 19
Osteichthyes
Miriam Reininger: Mimicry in juvenile
wrasses: ecological and behavioural aspects of a Coris-Amphiprion relationship
in the northern Red Sea - 23
Mollusca
Ulrich Bößneck: New records of
freshwater and land molluscs from Lebanon - 35
Bilal Öztürk, Banu Bitlis, Meltem Er Filiz: The genus Chrysallida
Carpenter, 1856 on the Turkish coasts - 53
Insecta
Fatih Dikmen, Vladimir G. Radchenko, A. Murat Aytekin: Taxonomic studies on the
genus Halictus Latreille, 1804 in Turkey - 79
Gamal M. Orabi, Fayez M. Semida, Mahmoud S. Abdel-Dayem,
Mostafa R. Sharaf, Samy M. Zalat: Diversity patterns of ants along an elevation gradient at St. Catherine
Protectorate, South Sinai, Egypt – OPEN ACCESS (Free
download)
Babak Gharali, Neal Evenhuis, Hosseinali Lotfalizadeh: Two new species of the
genus Empidideicus Becker, 1907 from northern Iran - 113
Ünal Zeybekoğlu, Abbas Mol, Murat Karavin: Morphological and
acoustic analysis of Cicada Linnaeus, 1758 species in Turkey - 121
Short Communications
Farzaneh Etezadifar, Ahmad Barati: Nestling diet of the
Western Reef Heron, Egretta gularis, in Hara Biosphere Reserve,
Persian Gulf - 131
Göran Nilson, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani: On the occurrence of Eirenis
coronelloides (Jan, 1862) in western Iran (Reptilia: Colubridae) - 133
Mustafa A. Al-Mukhtar, Laith A. Jawad, Abbas J.
Al-Faisal, Fawzei Mustafa: Dotted Grouper, Epinephelus epistictus (Temminck &
Schlegel, 1842) (Osteichthyes: Serranidae),
recorded from the marine waters of Iraq - 136
Mehmet Gökoğlu, Mustafa Ünlüsayın, Beytullah
Ahmet Balcı, Yaşar Özvarol, Halil Çolak: Two alien fish in the
Gulf of Antalya: Apogon queketti Gilchrist, 1903 (Apogonidae) and
Champsodon nudivittis (Ogilby, 1895) (Champsodontidae) - 138
Sergio Ragonese, Giovanbattista Giusto: Deep water occurrence of
Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan, 1850, in the North Levant (Eastern
Mediterranean Sea) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Penaeidae) - 141
Sinan Anlaş, Edward A. Khachikov, İnanç Özgen: On the genus Achenium
Leach, 1819 from Turkey and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae:
Paederinae) - 144
Mohammad Ali Akrami, Maryam Majidi, Moslem Behmanesh: A new species of
oribatid mite from Iran (Acari: Oribatida) - 147
Bülent Gözcelioğlu, Rob van Soest, Peter Proksh,
Belma Konuklugil: Contribution to the knowledge of the Demospongiae (Porifera) fauna of
Turkey - 149
Volume
53 (2011)
Aves
Shirin Aghanajafizadeh, Fatholah Heydari, Gholamreza
Naderi, M. R. Hemami: Nesting hole site selection by the Syrian Woodpecker, Dendrocopos syriacus,
in Yazd province, Iran – 3
Zeynel Arslangündoğdu, Cem Dalyan, Ergün Bacak, Ümit
Yardım, Cemil Gezgin, Vedat Beşkardeş: Spring migration of the
White Stork, Ciconia ciconia, and the Black Stork, Ciconia
nigra, over the Bosphorus – 7
Monif AlRashidi, András Kosztolányi, Mohammed Shobrak,
Tamás Székely: Breeding ecology of the Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus,
in the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia – 15
Reptilia
Salem Busais, Ulrich Joger: Molecular phylogeny of
the gecko genus Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 on the mainland of Yemen –25
Nastaran Heidari, Hiva Faizi, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani: Sexual dimorphism in the
Persian Gecko, Hemidactylus persicus Anderson, 1872, in Hormozgan
Province, Southern Iran – 35
Amphibia
Kerim Çiçek, Ahmet Mermer, Cemal Varol Tok: Population
dynamics of Rana macrocnemis Boulenger, 1885 at Uludağ,
Western Turkey – 41
Osteichthyes
Yusuf Bektaş, Yılmaz Çiftçi, Oğuzhan
Eroğlu, Ali Osman Beldüz:
Genetic discrimination of two Capoeta species in
north-eastern Anatolia, using mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene – 61
Crustacea
Murat Özbek: An overview of the Gammarus Fabricius (Gammaridae:
Amphipoda) species of Turkey, with an updated checklist: 71 – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Insecta
Erol Atay, Erdinç Oğur: Occurrence of species of
Pyralidae and Crambidae in Cyprus (Lepidoptera) – 79
Kevin Austin, Christodoulos Makris, Emma Small: Ground beetles of the
Akrotiri peninsula, Cyprus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) – 87
Ahmet Beyarslan: Orgilus (Orgilus) elazigensis sp. n. from Eastern Turkey
(Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Orgilinae) – 95
Neveen S. Gadallah, Amal F. El-Barty: Spider wasps collected
from the western region of Saudi Arabia – 99
Mohammad Naser Murai, Zuhair S. Amr: Sphecidae and
Crabronidae of the Al Thawrah Nature Reserve, northern Syria, with a checklist
of the species known from Syria (Insecta: Hymenoptera): 107 – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Arachnida
Abdullah Bayram, Nazife Yiğit, Melek Erdek, Halil
Koç, Zafer Sancak, Abdullah Melekoğlu, İlkay Çorak Öcal: Comparative cheliceral
morphology of the solifuge species Biton zederbaueri (Werner) and
Gluviopsilla discolor (Kraepelin) through scanning electron
microscopy – 121
Short Communications
Ali Miroğlu: First record of the Black Darter, Sympetrum
danae (Sulzer, 1776) (Odonata: Libellulidae), from Turkey – 129
Murat Biricik: First record of Junonia
orithya (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Turkey – 130
Selma Seven Çalışkan, Mustafa Özdemir : Two new records for the
Olethreutinae fauna of Turkey (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) – 133
Adile Akpınar, Muhammed İsmail Varol, Abdullah
Bayram: New records of funnel web spiders of the genus Malthonica Simon from
Turkey (Araneae: Agelenidae) – 135
Mostafa Mirzaie, Karim Haddad Irani-Nejad, Mohammad Ali
Akrami: New records of primitive oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from the
Shendabad region (East Azerbaijan province), Iran – 137
Volume
52 (2011)
Mammalia
Adwan H. Shehab, Samir A. Al-Ahmad, Fauzy F.
Samara: Morphology and distribution of the Indian Gerbil, Tatera indica
(Hardwicke, 1807), in Syria - 3
Tamer Albayrak: Anthropogenic barriers to the distribution of the Grey
Wolf (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758) in the Beydağları
Mountains area, Turkey - 11
Reptilia
Jacqueline Loos, Tamar Dayan, Nora Drescher, Tal
Levanony, Erez Maza, Boaz Shacham, Roy Talbi, Thorsten Assmann: Habitat preferences of
the Levant Green Lizard, Lacerta media israelica (Peters, 1964) - 17
Bektaş Sönmez, Cemal Turan, Şükran Yalçın
Özdilek: The effect of relocation on the morphology of Green
Turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758), hatchlings on
Samandağ beach, Turkey - 29
Amphibia
Eyup Başkale, Ferah Sayım, Şamil
Yıldırım, Mehmet Kutsay Atatür, Uğur Kaya: Reproductive ecology and body size-fecundity
relationships of the Green Toad, Pseudepidalea viridis (Laurenti,
1768), in the Kocaçay Stream, Izmir, Turkey - 39
Osteichthyes
Majid Bakhtiyari, Shafagh Kamal, Asghar Abdoli, Hamid
Reza Esmaeli, Mehrgan Ebrahimi: Comparison of the
feeding behaviour and strategy of the Killifish, Aphanius sophiae
Heckel, 1847, at two different localities in Iran - 47
Ahmet Mutlu Gözler, Semih Engin, Davut Turan, Cemalettin
Şahin: Age, growth and
fecundity of the Turkish Brook Lamprey, Eudontomyzon lanceolata
(Kux & Steiner, 1972), in north-eastern Turkey - 57
Insecta
Aref Dia, Henri J Dumont: The Odonata of Lebanon: 63 – OPEN ACCESS (Free
download)
Fateme Firouzi, Shahrokh Pashaei Rad, Sakine Hossein
Nezhad, Donat Agosti: Four new records of ants from Iran - 71
Seyed Massoud Madjdzadeh, Hassan Ali Dawah, Mike Bruford: Morphometric differentiation of Tetramesa leucospae
Zerova & Madjdzadeh, 2005, populations associated with two geographically
isolated grass species in Iran - 79
Adrian C. Pont, Nikita Vikhrev, Doreen Werner: The hunter-flies of
Armenia. I. Some species of the genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy, with
the description of a new species: 89 – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Acari
Alireza Saboori, Mohammad Bagheri: A new species of Smaris Latreille, 1796 from Iran
- 105
Short Communications
Rahimeh Baramaki Yazdi, Maryam Shaghoozaie, Somayeh
Galdavi, Mostafa Yousef Elahi, Mohsen Shahriar Moghadam, Nahid Shokri Bousjein,
Mohammad Javidkar: Identification of a new morphotype of the Indian Gerbil, Tatera indica
Hardwicke, 1807 (Muridae, Rodentia), from Iran - 111
Michael Heiss: The first breeding record of the Red-footed Falcon, Falco vespertinus
(Linnaeus, 1766), in Azerbaijan - 113
Bayram Öztürk, Arda M. Tonay, Aylin Akkaya, Ayaka Amaha
Öztürk, Ayhan Dede: Stranding of a Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758), in the
Turkish Black Sea - 115
Julia L. Y. Spaet, Jesse E. M. Cochran, Michael L.
Berumen: First record of the
Pigeye Shark, Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle, 1839)
(Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), in the Red Sea - 118
Gökhan Aydın: Conservation status of the Tiger Beetle Calomera aphrodisia
(Baudi di Selve, 1864) in Turkey (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) - 121
Hassan Ghahari, Reijo Jussila: Five species of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) new to Iran -
123
Kerem Bakır, Tuncer Katağan: On the occurrence of Caprella
scaura Templeton, 1836 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in Turkish waters - 125
Kamil Koç: Three new records of
cheyletid mites from Turkey (Acari: Cheyletidae) – 126
Volume
51 (2011)
Mammalia
Fatemeh Hosseini-Zavarei, Mohammad S. Farhadinia,
Mahmoud-Reza Hemami, Mahmoud Karami, Rahman Daniali and Maryam Omidi: Sex-age structure of bovids
in Ghameshlou, Central Iran - 3
Aves
Perri Eason, Bassim Rabea, Omar Attum: Conservation implications of flight initiation distance
and refuge use in Corn Crakes Crex crex at a migration stopover site - 9
Elif Yamaç, Evrim Günyel: Diet of the Eurasian Black Vulture, Aegypius monachus
Linnaeus, 1766, in Turkey and implications for its conservation: 15. – OPEN ACCESS (Free download)
Reptilia
Abdul-Rahman Al-Sirhan, Gary Brown: The status of the two Toad-headed Agamas, Phrynocephalus arabicus
(Anderson, 1894) and P. maculatus (Anderson, 1872), in Kuwait - 23
Faraham Ahmadzadeh, Vida Hojati, Afshin Faghiri: Morphological variation between three populations of the Caspian Bent-toed
Gecko, Cyrtopodion caspium (Eichwald, 1831) in Northern Iran: evidence
for incipient speciation? - 31
Nawal Al-Mukhaini, Taher A. Ba-Omar, Ibrahim Y. Mahmoud,
Sulyma Al-Barwani: Embryonic staging of the Green
Turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) - 39
Amphibia
Elnaz Najafimajd, Uğur Kaya: A newly found locality for the critically endangered
Yellow Spotted Newt, Neurergus microspilotus (Nesterov, 1917) nourishes
hope for its conservation - 51
Osteichthyes
Rahman Patimar, Mossaieb Ghasemi Chalanchi, Vahid
Chamanara, Loghman Naderi: Some life history aspects of Garra rufa (Heckel,
1843) in the Kangir River, Western Iran - 57
Mollusca
Torsten Wronski: The molluscan bio-fouling community on the Red Sea pearl oyster beds - 67
Insecta
Zubair Ahmed, Allen F. Sanborn, Kathy B. R. Hill: A new species of the cicada genus Cicadatra from Pakistan - 75
Ali Nafiz Ekiz, Ismail Şen, Ali Gök: Variation in Cryptocephalus (Protophysus) wehnckei
Weise, 1882 with a redescription of the poorly known female - 83
Martin Lillig: A new species of
the genus Phaleria Latreille, 1802 from Dhofar in Oman - 89
David Ward, Iris Musli, Keren Or, Thomas Gbenro, Orit
Skutelsky: Bruchid seed infestation and development time in three
host species of Acacia - 95
Faez Mousatat, Henri J. Dumont, Mahmod Karrom, Nakwan
Mouhamad Ali: Dragonflies from northern Syria - 105
Short Communications
Leila Abdoli, Ehsan Kamrani, Asghar Abdoli, Bahram Kiabi: Age and growth of the Mudskipper, Scartelaos tenuis
(Day, 1876) (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae), in the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf
at Bushehr province, Iran - 113
Erhan Akamca, Sinan Mavruk, Caner E. Özyurt, Volkan
Barış Kiyağa, Meltem Manaşırlı: Two new Lessepsian species found in the north-eastern Levantine Basin:
Broadbanded Cardinalfish (Apogon fasciatus (White, 1790)) and
Indian Scad (Decapterus russelli (Rüppell, 1830)) (Osteichthyes -
116
Fatemeh Ashrafi, Shahrokh Pashaei Rad: A new record of the
subfamily Syrphinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) for the Iranian fauna – 119
Volume
50 (2010)
Mammalia
Yasin Ilemin, Behzat Gürkan: Status and activity patterns of the Caracal, Caracal
caracal (Schreber, 1776), in Datça and Bozburun Peninsulas, Southwestern
Turkey
Boris Krystufek, Vladimir Vohralík, Jan Zima, Darina Koubinova, Elena V.
Buzan: A new subspecies of the Iranian Vole, Microtus irani
Thomas, 1921, from Turkey
Roohallah Mirzaei, Mahmud Krami, Afshin Danehkar, Asghar Abdoli, Jim
Conroy: Prey size selection of the Eurasian Otter, Lutra lutra
(Linnaeus, 1758), at the Jajrood River, Iran
Emine Arslan, Elif Gülbahçe, Hilal Arikoglu, Atilla Arslan, Elena V. Buzan,
Boris Krystufek: Mitochondrial divergence between three cytotypes of the
Anatolian Mole Rat, Nannospalax xanthodon (Nordmann, 1840)
Tuba Yagci, Yüksel Coskun, Nursel Asan: The tunnel structure of blind mole
rats (genus Spalax) in Turkey
Aves
Ahmad Barati, Behrouz Behrouzi-Rad: Breeding success of the Great
Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo Linnaeus, 1758, at Ramsar,
northern Iran
Reptilia
Yakup Kaska, Eyüp Baskale, Rasit Urhan, Yusuf Katılmış, Müge
Gidis, Fikret Sarı, Dogan Sözbilen, A. Fuat Canbolat, Fevzi Yılmaz,
Murat Barlas, Nedim Özdemir, Mehmet Özkul: Natural and anthropogenic factors
affecting the nest-site selection of Loggerhead Turtles, Caretta caretta,
on Dalaman-Sarıgerme beach in South-west Turkey
Osteichthyes
Semih Engin, Kadir Seyhan: Age, growth, reproduction and diet of the
Flatsnout Goby, Neogobius platyrostris (Pallas, 1814), on the
south-eastern Black Sea Coast of Turkey
Sara Reyhani, Sohrab Rezvani Gilkolaee, Pargol Ghavam Mostafavi, Hassan
Fazli, Mohamad Porkazemi, Nazli Golestani: Microsatellite markers indicate a
different structure among three populations of the Caspian Roach, Rutilus
rutilus caspicus (Jakowlew, 1870), in the Caspian Sea
Ertan Taskavak, Sule Gürkan, Tuncay Murat Sever, Sencer Akalın, Okan
Özaydin: Gut contents and feeding habits of the Great Pipefish, Syngnathus
acus Linnaeus, 1758, in İzmir Bay (Aegean Sea, Turkey)
Chondrichthyes
Alec B. M. Moore, William T. White, Richard Peirce: Additions to the shark
fauna of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf
Mollusca
Barna Páll-Gergely: New and little-known land snails from Turkey
Insecta
Shahrokh Pashaei Rad, Roohollah Abbasi, Gholamreza Soleimani, Libor Dvorak:
New and supplementary information on the vespid fauna of Iran
Elisa Riservato, Cristina Grieco, Francesca Pella, Roberto Sindaco, Fabio
Pupin, Ahmed Saeed Suleiman, Mauro Fasola: A contribution to the knowledge of
the odonatofauna of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)
Ünal Zeybekoglu: A new species of the bug genus Cicadula
Zetterstedt, 1838 from Turkey
Arachnida
Rasit Urhan: Two new species of zerconid mites from Turkey
Wilson R. Lourenco, Elise-Anne Leguin, Bernard Duhem: Notes on the type
material of Compsobuthus acutecarinatus (Simon, 1882) and C.
maindroni (Kraepelin, 1900), and description of a new species from United
Arab Emirates
Short Communications
M. Zafar-ul Islam, Mohammad Basheer, Waliur Rahman, Ahmed Boug: The Honey
Badger, Mellivora capensis, killing captive Asian Houbara
Bustards, Chlamydotis macqueenii, in Saudi Arabia
Werner Prünte, Reinhard Vohwinkel, Hakan Karaardıç, Ali Erdogan: First
record of Blyth’s Pipit, Anthus godlewskii (Taczanowski, 1876),
from Turkey
Fatemeh Amiri Baghbadarani, Sara Abasi, Ahmad Barati: Reproductive ecology
of the Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica Linnaeus, 1758) in central Iran
Mohadeseh Afroosheh, Mehdi Rajabizadeh, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Haji
Gholi Kami: The Brahminy Blind Snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus
(Daudin, 1803), a newcomer to Iran (Ophidia: Typhlopidae)
Zeynel Arslangündogdu, Erdem Hizal: The Western Conifer Seed Bug, Leptoglossus
occidentalis (Heidemann, 1910), recorded in Turkey (Heteroptera:
Coreidae)
Shalva Barjadze, George Japoshvili, Nana Bakhtadze: New records for the
Georgian aphid fauna (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
Dmitry Obydov: A new subspecies of the ground beetle Carabus (Archiplectes)
edithae Reitter, 1893 from the Caucasus (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Önder Calmaşur, Hikmet Özbek: Distribution data on the Cephidae
(Hymenoptera: Symphyta) fauna of Turkey
Masumeh Naderloo, Shahrokh Pashaei Rad: A new record of the genus Spazigaster
(Diptera: Syrphidae) from Iran
Murat Özbek, Nurcan Özkan: Amathillina cristata Sars 1894, a
Ponto-Caspian amphipod genus newly recorded from Turkey (Amphipoda: Gammaridae)
Seray Yildiz, Süleyman Balik: Nais christinae Kasprzak, 1973:
an Oligochaeta species new for Turkey (Annelida: Naididae)
Volume
49 (2010)
Mammalia
Zeynel Arslangündoğdu, Max Kasparek, Halil Sarıbaşak, M.
Süleyman Kaçar, Osman Yöntem, M. Tuğrul Şahin: Development of the
population of the European Fallow Deer, Dama dama dama (Linnaeus, 1758),
in Turkey (Mammalia: Cervidae)
Gill Braulik, Omid S. Savadkouhi, Shahrom Fadakar, Hassan Mohammadi, Robert
L. Brownell Jr., Randall R. Reeves, M. Bagher Nabavi, Antonio Fernandez: A
retrospective investigation of two dolphin mass mortality events in Iran, autumn
2007 (Mammalia: Cetacea)
Aves
Tamer Albayrak,
Ali Erdogan: A GIS-based approach to assess the population size of Krüper’s
Nuthatch, Sitta krueperi at a newly found breeding area in Inner
Anatolia (Aves: Passeriformes)
Christoph Randler: Resource partitioning between the breeding migrant
Cyprus Wheatear, Oenanthe cypriaca, and the passage migrant
Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa striata, in Cyprus (Aves:
Passeriformes)
Reptilia
Salim Y. Al-Mohanna, Preeta George: Assessment of the origin of a
Loggerhead Turtle, Caretta caretta, found in Kuwaiti waters,
using mitochondrial DNA (Reptilia: Cheloniidae)
Mehran Loghmani Devin, Parvin Sadeghi: Barnacles on Hawksbill Sea Turtles, Eretmochelys
imbricata, in Hormoz Island, Iran (Reptilia: Cheloniidae)
Nastaran Heidari, Hamed Cheatsazan, Haji Gholi Kami, Soheila Shafiei:
Sexual dimorphism of the Black Rock Agama, Laudakia melanura lirata
(Blanford, 1874) (Sauria: Agamidae)
Mehdi Rajabizadeh, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Hiva Faizi, Hamid Bostanchi:
New insights in the taxonomy of the Persian Sand Gecko, Tropiocolotes persicus
(Nikolsky, 1903) (Sauria: Gekkonidae)
Osteichthyes
Nazli Golestani, Sohrab Rezvani Gilkolaei, Roghieh Safari, Sara Reyhani:
Population genetic structure of the Silver Pomfret, Pampus argenteus
(Euphrasén, 1788), in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman as revealed by
microsatellite variation (Osteichthyes: Stromateidae)
Insecta
Veysel Kartal, Murat Karavin: Two new species of the genus Bubastia
Emeljanov, 1975 from Turkey (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae)
Thomas Schneider, Jacob Schneider: Occurrence, behaviour, and habitat
preference of the Levant Pincertail, Onychogomphus macrodon
Selys, 1887 in Turkey (Insecta: Odonata)
Thomas Stalling: A new species of ant-loving cricket, Myrmecophilus
Berthold, 1827, and comments on M. nigricornis (Chopard, 1963)
from the Middle East (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae)
Arachnida
Wilson R. Lourenco, Ersen A. Yagmur, Bernard Duhem: A new species of Buthus
Leach, 1815 from Jordan (Scorpiones: Buthidae)
Short Communications
Alec B. M. Moore: The Smalleye Stingray Dasyatis microps
(Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) in the Gulf: previously unreported presence of a
large, rare elasmobranch
Malek Ali, Adib Saad, Mohamed Mourad Ben Amor, Christian Capapé: First
records of the Honeycomb Stingray, Himantura uarnak (Forskål,
1775), off the Syrian coast (eastern Mediterranean) (Chondrichthyes:
Dasyatidae)
Cem Cevik, Deniz Ergüden, Nazmi Tekelioğlu: Confirmation of the presence
of the Sea Lamprey, Petromyzon marinus Linnaeus, 1758 in the
Levantine Sea (Petromyzoniformes: Petromyzonidae)
Fateme Amini Yekta, Aria Ashja Ardalan, Mohammad Reza Shokri: First record
of Clypeomorus isselii (Pagenstecher, 1877) (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae)
from the Persian Gulf, Iran
Mohammad Ali Akrami: Some genera and species of oribatid mites, new to the
fauna of Iran (Acari)
Hakan Demir, Osman Seyyar, Metin Aktas: Peucetia Thorell, 1869 – a
genus new for the Turkish spider fauna (Araneae: Oxyopidae)
Alireza Asem, Behrooz Atashbar, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Naser Agh:
Morphological and biometric characterisation of rare males and sexual
dimorphism in parthenogenetic Artemia (Crustacea: Anostraca)
Cengiz Kocak, Tuncer Katagan, Atakan Sukatar: New records of shallow-water
sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from Turkey
Volume
48 (2009)
Mammalia
Adwan H. Shehab, Mohamed Asaad, Ibrahim Mamkhair:
Morphology and distribution of the Asian Garden
Dormouse, Eliomys melanurus Wagner, 1840, in Syria (Rodentia:
Gliridae). - 48, 2009: 3-12.
Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Alireza Mahdavi, Fatemeh Hosseini-Zavarei: Reproductive ecology of the Persian Leopard, Panthera pardus
saxicolor, in Sarigol National Park, northeastern Iran (Mammalia:
Felidae). - 48, 2009: 13-16.
Yüksel Coskun, Alaettin Kaya, Gökhan Yürümez: Chromosomal forms of the Mole Rat, Nannospalax
nehringi (Satunin, 1898), from the Van Lake Basin in Eastern Turkey
(Mammalia: Rodentia). - 48, 2009: 17-24.
Aves (Birds)
Recep Karakas, Ferdi Akarsu: Recent status and
distribution of the Great Bustard, Otis tarda, in Turkey (Aves: Otidae). -
48, 2009: 25-34.
Torsten Wronski: Habitat preference and diurnal
activity pattern in the Sand Partridge, Ammoperdix heyi heyi
(Aves: Phasianidae). - 48, 2009: 49-62.
Reptiles
Saif M. Al-Ghais: Nesting of Hawksbill Turtles, Eretmochelys
imbricata, on the islands of the Arabian Gulf (Reptilia: Cheloniidae). -
48, 2009: 43-48.
Dmitry A. Bondarenko, Evgeny A. Peregontsev: Peculiarities of landscape distribution of the Central Asian Tortoise,
Agrionemys horsfieldii, in Iran (Reptilia: Testudines). - 48, 2009:
49-62.
Fish
Brian W. Coad: Alburnus zagrosensis
n. sp., a new species of fish from the Zagros Mountains of Iran
(Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). - 48, 2009: 63-70.
Insects
Mahmoud S. Abd El-Dayem: Two new species of
the ground beetle genus Tachyura Motschulsky, 1862 from Egypt
(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini). - 48, 2009: 71-74.
Martin Lillig: Two new species of the genus Erodius
Fabricius, 1775 from Oman and Syria (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae). -
48, 2009: 75-80.
Bruno Massa, Paolo Fontana : On some Drymadusini
from the Middle East (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). - 48, 2009: 81-88.
Arachnids
Zübeyde Kumbicak, Serap Ergene, Saadet Saygideger: Chromosomal data on six
araneomorph spiders belonging to the families Lycosidae and Gnaphosidae
(Araneae: Araneomorphae). - 48, 2009: 89-96.
Rasit Urhan: Zercon honazicus
sp. n., a new species of mite from Turkey (Acari: Zerconidae). - 48, 2009:
97-100.
Short Communications
Mounir R. Abi-Said: First record of
Wagner’s Gerbil, Gerbillus dasyurus (Wagner, 1842) (Mammalia:
Rodentia), in Lebanon. - 48, 2009: 101-102.
Ferhat Matur: A cytogenetic study on the
Taurus Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus taurensis Gündüz et al.,
2007 (Mammalia: Rodentia), in Turkey. - 48, 2009: 103-105.
Saliha Coruh: Two little-known Ichneumonidae
(Hymenoptera) from Turkey, including one new for the Turkish fauna. - 48, 2009:
106-107.
Yusuf Katilmis, Suat Kiyak: New records of oak
gallwasps of the genus Andricus (Burgsdorf, 1783) from Turkey
(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). - 48, 2009: 108-109.
Selcuk Altinsacli, Songül Altinsacli: The freshwater ostracod Potamocypris producta (Sars,
1924) new for Turkey (Ostracoda: Cyprididae). - 48, 2009: 1100-111.
Oya Özulug, Serpil Yaltalier: A new record for
the Ostracoda fauna of Turkey: Candonopsis scourfieldi Brady,
1910 (Crustacea: Podocopida). - 48, 2009: 112-113.
Murat Kaya, Elisabeth A. Herniou, Timothy G. Barraclough, Diego Fontaneto: A faunistic survey of bdelloid rotifers in Turkey. - 48, 2009:
114-116.
Aydin Örstan: An observation of the mating of
Chondrus tournefortianus (Pulmonata: Enidae). - 48, 2009:
117-118.
Tomas Pavlicek, Csaba Csuzdi, Yüksel Coskun: First earthworm records in Mesopotamia (Oligochaetae). - 48, 2009:
119-120.
Volume
47 (2009)
Mammalia
Marcelo Mazzolli: Arabian Leopard, Panthera pardus nimr, status and
habitat assessment in northwest Dhofar, Oman (Mammalia: Felidae) – 47, 2009: 3-12
Roohallah Mirzaei, Mahmud Karami, Afshin Danehkar, Asghar Abdoli: Habitat selection of the Eurasian Otter, Lutra lutra, in
Jajrood river, Iran (Mammalia: Carnivora) – 47, 2009: 13-20
Gholamreza Naderi, Mahmoud R. Hemami, Borhan Riazii, Aliasghar Alesheikh: Notes on the ecological peculiarities of the Iranian Jerboa, Allactaga
firouzi Womochel, 1978 (Mammalia: Dipodidae) - 47, 2009: 21-28
Aves
Perri Eason, Reginald Victor, Jens Eriksen, Andy Kwarteng: Status of the exotic Ring-necked Parakeet, Psittacula krameri, in
Oman (Aves: Psittacidae) - 47, 2009: 29-38
Ortac Onmuş, Raika Durusoy, Güven Eken: Distribution of breeding birds in the Gediz Delta, Western Turkey
(Aves) – 47, 2009: 39-48
Reptilia
Saman R. Afrasiab, Sarbaz I. Mohamad: A study on cave-dwelling geckos in Iraq, with the description of a new
species from Saffine mountain (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) – 47, 2009: 49-56
Osteichthyes
Kiavash Golzarianpour, Asghar Abdoli, Bahram H. Kiabi,
Jörg Freyhof: First record of the freshwater loach, Turcinoemacheilus
kosswigi (Bănărescu and Nalbant, 1964), from Iran (Karoun
drainage) (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) - 47, 2009: 57-62
Sayed Ali Johari, Brian W.
Coad, Sohrab Mazloomi, Morteza Kheyri, Saba Asghari: Biological and morphometric characteristics of, Capoeta fusca,
a cyprinid fish living in the qanats of south Khorasan, Iran (Osteichthyes:
Cyprinidae) - 47, 2009: 63-70
Fahrettin Kücük, Davut Turan, Cemalettin Sahin, Iskender Gülle: Capoeta mauricii n. sp., a new species of cyprinid fish
from Lake Beysehir, Turkey (Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae) – 47, 2009: 71-82
Insecta
Roohollah Abbasi: Sexual dimorphism in
the wing morphology of social vespid wasps – a case study on the genus Polistes
Latreille using geometric morphometrics (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) - 47, 2009:
83-74
Insecta
Anika Timm, Jörn Buse, Tamar
Dayan, Werner Härdtle, Tal Levanony, Thorsten Assmann: At the interface of historical and present-day ecology: ground beetles
in woodlands and open habitats in Upper Galilee (Israel) (Coleoptera:
Carabidae) - 47, 2009: 75-104
Short Communications
Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Hamzeh Oraei, Morteza Johari: A new record of the gekkonid lizard Tropiocolotes latifi
Leviton & Anderson, 1972 from Iran (Sauria: Gekkonidae) - 47, 2009: 105-107
AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan: Two new records of Stenodactylus
spp. from Kuwait (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) - 47, 2009: 108-109
Özcan Özen, Hakan Ayyildiz, Dogan Tuncay, Murat Bilecenoglu: First record of Gobius couchi Miller & El-Tawil,
1974 from the Aegean Sea (Pisces: Gobiidae) - 47, 2009: 109-110
Tahir Özcan, Kerem Bakir, Valerio Vignoli, Tuncer Katagan: A new record of a sea spider from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Ascorhynchus
castelli (Dohrn, 1881) (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) - 47, 2009: 111-112
Aydin Topcu, Hakan Demir, Osman Seyyar: Contribution to the jumping spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae)
- 47, 2009: 112-113
Mike J. Lush: Some ant records
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Middle East - 47, 2009: 114-116
Alireza Asem, Behrooz Atashbar, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani, Naser Agh: Biometric comparison of two parthenogenetic populations of Artemia
Leach, 1819 from the Urmia Lake basin, Iran (Anostraca: Artemiidae) - 47, 2009:
117-120
Volume
46 (2009)
Mammalia
Gucu, A. C., S. Sakinan, M. Ok: Occurrence of the critically endangered
Mediterranean Monk Seal, Monachus monachus, at
Olympos-Beydağları National Park, Turkey (Mammalia: Phocidae). 46,
2009: 3-8.
Farhadinia, M. S., B. Sh. Esfandabad, M. Karami, F. Hosseini-Zavarei, H.
Absalan, B. Nezami: Goitered Gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa: its
habitat preference and conservation needs in Miandasht Wildlife Refuge,
north-eastern Iran (Mammalia: Artiodactyla). 46, 2009: 9-18.
Mizrahi, N., D. Kerem, O. Goffman, O. Lernau, E. Spani: Identified fish
remains regurgitated by a solitary Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops
aduncus, in the Gulf of Aqaba (Mammalia: Delphinidae). 46, 2009: 19-28.
Aves
Barati, A.: Diet and
growth of chicks of the Great Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, at
Ramsar, northern Iran (Aves: Phalacrocoracidae). 46, 2009: 29-36.
Förschler, M. I., Ch. Randler: A song analysis of the insular Cyprus
Short-toed Treecreeper, Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae, supports
its subspecies status (Aves: Passeriformes). 46, 2009: 37-40.
Reptilia
Al-Hashem, M. A., P. F. Brain: Changed substrate preferences shown by
Fringe-toed Lizards, Acanthodactylus scutellatus, from Kuwait’s
Al-Burgan oil field (Reptilia: Lacertidae). 46, 2009: 41-46.
Osteichthyes
Bayhan, B., T. M. Sever: Food and feeding habits of the Atlantic Horse
Mackerel, Trachurus trachurus, from the Aegean Sea (Osteichthyes:
Carangidae). 46, 2009: 47-54.
Niksirat, H., A. Abdoli: On the status of the critically endangered
Caspian Brown Trout, Salmo trutta caspius, during recent
decades in the southern Caspian Sea basin (Osteichthyes: Salmonidae). 46, 2009:
55-60.
Özcan, G.: Reproductive biology of the endemic and threatened Menderes
Nase, Chondrostoma meandrense Elvira, 1987, in Western Anatolia
(Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae). 46, 2009: 61-68.
Insecta
Gheibi, M., H. Ostovan, K. Kamali: A contribution to knowledge of the
tachinid fly fauna of Fars province, Iran (Diptera: Tachinidae: Dexiinae and
Phasiinae). 46, 2009: 69-74.
Kolarov, J., S. Çoruh, M. Yurtcan, M. F. Gürbüz: A study of Metopiinae
from Turkey with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). 46,
2009: 75-82.
Monfared, A., A. A. Talebi, Gh. Tahmasbi, E. Ebrahimi, J. Biesmeijer:
Bumblebee diversity and abundance in the Iranian Alborz Mountains (Hymenoptera:
Apidae). 46, 2009: 83-94.
Gharakhloo, M. M., S. Ziani: Occurrence of scarab beetles inside rodent
burrows in some parts of Iran (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). 46, 2009: 95-98.
Arachnida
Demir, H., M. Aktaş, A. Topçu: New records of little-known species
of Xysticus C. L. Koch, 1835 in Turkey (Araneae: Thomisidae). 46, 2009:
99-102.
Lourenço, W. R., E.-A. Leguin: A new species of the genus Buthacus
Birula, 1908 from the United Arab Emirates (Scorpiones: Buthidae). 46, 2009:
103-108.
Short Communications
Abd Rabou, A. F. N.: On the occurrence of some carnivores in the Gaza
Strip, Palestine (Mammalia: Carnivora). 46, 2009: 109-112.
Hojati, V., H. Gh. Kami, A. Faghiri, F. Ahmadzadeh: A morphological
study of the Bedriaga Plate-tailed Gecko, Teratoscincus bedriagai
Nikolsky, 1900, in Semnan province of Iran (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). 46, 2009:
113-116.
Eid, E. Kh.: New records of large Branchiopods from northern Jordan
(Crustacea: Branchiopoda). 46, 2009: 117-118.
Darılmaz, M. C., S. Kıyak: Two species of water beetle of the
family Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) new to Turkey. 46, 2009: 119-120.
Volume
45 (2009)
Mammalia
Hind M. Al-Musfir, H. M. & N. Yamaguchi: Timings of hibernation and
breeding of Ethiopian Hedgehogs, Paraechinus aethiopicus, in Qatar. –
Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 3-9.
Wronski, T. & W. Macasero: Evidence for the persistence of Arabian
Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) in the Ibex Reserve, Saudi Arabia and its
preferred prey species. – Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 11-18.
Yiğit, N., E. Çolak, İ. Kandemir, T. Kankılıç, R.
Çolak, Ş. Bulut, P. Cam, F. Saygılı, M. Sözen & Ş.
Özkurt: Allozyme
variation in Rattus
rattus (Rodentia: Muridae) in Turkey, with particular emphasis on the
taxonomy. - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 19-28.
Aves
Charalambidou, I. & S. Gücel: First survey of Audouins Gull, Larus audouinii (Payraudeau, 1826),
colonies at Kleidhes Islands, Cyprus. Zoology in the
Middle East 45, 2008: 29-34.
Uzun, A., B. Uzun, G. Kopij: Year-to-year variation in clutch size and
breeding success of the Little Egret, Egretta garzetta Linnaeus, 1766, in Turkey. - Zoology in the
Middle East 45, 2008: 35-40.
Reptilia
Cheatsazan, H., V. Rabani & A. Mahjoorazad: Sexual dimorphism and sexual
dichromatism in the Small-scaled Rock Agama, Laudakia microlepis (Blanford,
1874) (Sauria: Agamidae). - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 41-48.
Rees, A. F., M. Jony, D. Margaritoulis & B. J. Godley: Satellite
tracking of a Green Turtle, Chelonia
mydas, from Syria further highlights importance of North Africa for
Mediterranean turtles. - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 49-54.
Insecta
Buse, J., T. Levanony, A. Timm, T. Dayan & T. Assmann: Saproxylic
beetle assemblages of three managed oak woodlands in the Eastern Mediterranean.
- Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 55-66.
Lush, M. J.: A new species of Monomorium (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae) from Kuwait. - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 67-72.
Mehrabi, R. & A. Ssymank: Species composition and flower visiting by
Syrphidae (Diptera) in north-eastern Iran. - Zoology in the Middle East 45,
2008: 73-78.
Sharaf, K., P. Bure, L. Horov, T.Pavliček & E. Nevo:
Distribution of abundance and genome size variability in the grain beetle Oryzaephilus surinamensis
(Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Silvanidae). - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008:
79-90.
Arachnida
Topçu, A., T. Türkeş & O. Seyyar: A new spider of the genus Troglohyphantes (Araneae:
Linyphiidae) from a Turkish cave. - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 91-96.
Urhan, R.: Contributions to the genus Prozercon
Sellnick, 1943 (Acari: Zerconidae) from Turkey, with the description of two new
species and a key to species. - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 97-104.
Short Communications
Esmaeili, H. R., G Gholamhosseini, H. Zareian, B. Krystufek: Noteworthy
range extension of two white-toothed shrews in Iran: Crocidura suaveolens and Suncus etruscus
(Soricidae). Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 105-107.
Auer, M., S. Richter & A. Khani: A new record of the Turkmenian
Fat-Tailed Gecko, Eublepharis
turcmenicus Darevsky, 1978, from north-eastern Iran (Squamata:
Gekkonidae). - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 107-110.
Al-Sirhan, A.: First record of the Small-spotted Desert Lizard, Mesalina guttulata
(Lichtenstein, 1823) (Sauria: Lacertidae), from Kuwait. - Zoology in the
Middle East 45, 2008: 110-111.
Loghmani Devin, M., A. Savari & P. Sadeghi: Nesting of Hawksbill
Turtle, Eretmochelys
imbricata Linnaeus, 1766, on Hormoz Island, Iran (Cheloniidae). - Zoology in the
Middle East 45, 2008: 111-114.
Alipanah, H.: New record of a choreutid species (Lepidoptera:
Choreutidae) from Iran. - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 114-115.
Demir, D. & A. Demirsoy: Some interesting and new records of
Cicadellidae (Insecta: Hemiptera) from eastern Turkey. - Zoology in the
Middle East 45, 2008: 116-117.
Örstan, A.: Notes on the reproduction of Rumina saharica from Turkey (Pulmonata:
Subulinidae). - Zoology in the Middle East 45, 2008: 118-120.
Volume
44 (2008)
Mammalia
Sözen, M., A. Karatas, F. Alsheyab, A. Shehab & Z. Amr: Karyotypes
of seven rodents from Jordan (Mammalia: Rodentia)
Aves
Javed, S., S. Khan & J. Nazeer Shah: Breeding status of the
Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus (Aves: Phaethontidae), on
Jarnein Island, United Arab Emirates
Sehhatisabet, M. E., B. Kiabi, A. Pazuki, H. Alipanah, A. Khaleghizadeh,
H. Barari, R. Basiri & F. Aghabeigi: Food diversity and niche-overlap of
sympatric tits (Great Tit, Parus major, Blue Tit, Cyanistes
caeruleus and Coal Tit Periparus ater) in the Hyrcanian
Plain forests
Islam, M. Z., K. Ismail & A. Boug: Re-introduction of the Red-necked
Ostrich, Struthio camelus camelus, in Mahazat as-Sayd
Protected Area in central Saudi Arabia
Reptilia
Cheatsazan, H., V. Rabani, A. Mahjoorazad & H. G. Kami: Taxonomic
status of the Yellow-Headed Agama, Laudakia nupta fusca
(Blanford, 1876) (Sauria: Agamidae)
Mohammed; E. H. A. & D. M. Hammad: Notes on a sympatric population
of two species of spiny-tailed lizards in Sudan: Uromastyx dispar
Heyden, 1827, and U. ocellata Lichtenstein, 1823 (Sauria: Agamidae)
Nazari-Serenjeh, F. & F. Torki: Additional specimens of the gecko Asaccus
nasrullahi Werner, 2006 (Reptilia: Phyllodactylidae), with notes on
taxonomy and ecology
Osteichthyes
Sargeran, P., M. Bakhtiyari, A. Abdoli, B. W. Coad, K. Sarvi, M. R.
Lishi & A. Hajimoradloo: The endemic Iranian Cave-fish, Iranocypris typhlops:
two taxa or two forms based on the mental disc?
Insecta
Itzhak, M. J.-J.: Seed harvester and scavenger ants along roadsides in
Northern Israel
Saji, A. & A. E. Whittington: Ant-lion fauna recorded in the Abu
Dhabi Emirate (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)
Short Communications
Ghoddousi, A., A. K. Hamidi, T. Ghadirian, D. Ashayeri, M. Hamzehpour,
H. Moshiri, H. Zohrabi, L. Julayi: Territorial marking by the Persian Leopard (Panthera
pardus saxicolor Pocock, 1927) in Bamu National Park, Iran
Shah M. S. & P. Cunningham: Fences as a threat to Sand Cats, Felis
margarita Loche, 1858, in Saudi Arabia
Sandor, A. D. & Z. Orban: Food of the Desert Eagle Owl, Bubo ascalaphus
Savigny, 1809, in Siwa Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt
Uzun, A. & B. Uzun: Comparison of nestling nutrition and growth of
Black-crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, and Little
Egret, Egretta garzetta
Tourenq, Ch., M. K. Shuriqi, K. Foster, G. Foster, C. Chellapermal &
D. Rein: First record of a Bowmouth Guitarfish, Rhina ancylostoma,
in northern Oman, with an up-date on the status of elasmobranchs (sharks and
rays) in the United Arab Emirates
Dvorak, L. & J. M. Carpenter: The first record of the paper wasp Polistes
smithii neavei von Schulthess, 1921, from the Middle East (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae), with notes on the social wasp fauna of Yemen
Volume
43 (2008)
Mammalia & Reptilia
Bishop, J. M. & A. H. Alsaffar: Quantitative observations on marine
mammals and reptiles of Kuwait’s Boubyan Island
Mammalia
H. Güclüsoy: Interaction between Monk Seals, Monachus monachus
(Hermann, 1779), and artisanal fisheries in the Foça Pilot Monk Seal
Conservation Area, Turkey
Siahsarvie, R., J. Darvish & A. Sarafrazi: Geometric morphometric
comparison of the mandibles of three species of vole of the genus Microtus
(Rodentia: Arvicolinae) from northern Iran
Strauss, W. M., M. Sher Shah, M. Shobrak: Rodent trapping in the
Saja/Umm Ar-Rimth Protected Area of Saudi Arabia using two different trap types
Aves
Barati, A., A. A. Amerifar: On the status of the Great Bustard, Otis
tarda Linnaeus, 1758 (Aves: Otididae) in Kurdistan Province, Iran
Kiat, Y., G. Perlman, A. Balaban, Y. Leshem, I. Izhaki, M. Charter:
Feeding specialization of urban Long-eared Owls, Asio otus
(Linnaeus, 1758), in Jerusalem, Israel
Serra, G., M. S. Abdallah, G. al Qaim: Feeding ecology and behaviour of
the last known surviving oriental Northern Bald Ibises, Geronticus eremita
(Linnaeus, 1758), at their breeding quarters in Syria
Reptilia
Göcmen, B., A. M. Disi, M. Z. Yildiz: On the occurrence of Blanus
strauchi aporus Werner, 1898 and Chalcides guentheri
Boulenger, 1887 (Reptilia) in the Mediterranean ecozone of Syria
Amphibia
Ebrahimi, M., S. Javanmardi, H. R. Esmaeili, H. G. Kami: Embryo and
larval development of Iranian Near Eastern Brown Frogs, Rana macrocnemis
pseudodalmatina Eiselt & Schmidtler, 1971 (Amphibia: Ranidae), in
Alang Dareh Forest, north-eastern Iran
Osteichthyes
Pazooki, J., M. Sheidai, M. M. Korani: A systematic and
ecological study of Aphanius vladykovi Coad, 1988
(Actinopterygii: Cyprinodontidae) in Iran
Insecta
Makris, Ch., G. Georgiou, K. Austin, E. Small: Additions to our
knowledge of the ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) fauna of Cyprus
Crustacea
Monchenko, V.I.: Redescription of the Oriental Thermocyclops
taihokuensis (Harada, 1931) (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from its westernmost
population
Short Communications
Barati, A., & F. Ataii: Observations on the breeding of the
Ferruginous Duck, Aythya nyroca (Güldenstädt, 1770), at Lake Zarivar, Kurdistan Province, Iran
Corsini-Foka, M. & M. Masseti: On the oldest known record of
the Nile Soft-shelled Turtle, Trionyx triunguis (Forskal, 1775),
in the Eastern Aegean islands (Greece)
Abdoli, A., P. Rasooli & S. Soltaninasab: A contribution to
the biology of Acanthalburnus urmianus (Günther, 1899) (Osteichthyes:
Cyprinidae): an endemic fish of Iran
Keskin, B., E. Aydin Yagmur: A new record for the Tenebrionidae
fauna of Turkey: Akis
subtricostata Redtenbacher, 1850 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Çoruh, S. & H. Özbek: New and rare species of Ichneumonidae
(Hymenoptera) from Turkey
Gharali, B. & J. Van Steenis: First record of the genus Spilomyia
Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Iran
Demir, H., A. Topcu & O. Seyyar: Contribution to the
knowledge of the Philodromidae (Arachnida:
Araneae) of Turkey
Volume
42 (2007)
Mammalia
Abi-Said, M. & D. Marrouche Abi-Said: Distribution of the Striped
Hyaena (Hyaena hyaena syriaca Matius, 1882) (Carnivora:
Hyaenidae) in urban and rural areas of Lebanon
Kankılıç, T., T. Kankılıç, R. Çolak, E. Çolak &
A. Karataş: Karyological comparison of populations of the Spalax
leucodon Nordmann, 1840 superspecies (Rodentia: Spalacidae) in Turkey
Kryštufek, B. & V. Vohralík: Distribution of field mice (Apodemus)
(Mammalia: Rodentia) in Anatolia
Mamkhair, I. H., F. F. Samara & A. H. Shehab: Morphological
characteristics of the Libyan Jird, Meriones libycus Lichtenstein, 1823
(Rodentia: Gerbillinae), in Syria
Aves
Al-Hmoud, A. R., M. Janaydeh, S. Damhoureyeh & F. Khoury:
Inter-locality variation in the reproductive ecology of the Linnet, Carduelis
cannabina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Aves: Fringillidae), in Jordan
Shobrak, M.: On the nesting status of some seabirds in Djibouti
Reptilia
Rastegar-Pouyani, N. & H. Faizi: Geographic variation in the skull
morphology of Trachylepis aurata transcaucasica Chernov, 1926 (Sauria:
Scincidae) in the Zagros Mountains, Western Iran
Insecta
Kolarov, J. & H. Ghahari: A study of the Iranian Ichneumonidae
(Hymenoptera): II. Brachycyrtinae and Cryptinae
Tardigrada
Schill, R.O., F. Huhn & H.-R. Köhler: The first record of
tardigrades (Tardigrada) from the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
Coral Reefs
Kochzius, M.: Community structure of coral reef fishes in El Quadim Bay
(El Quseir, Egyptian Red Sea coast)
Short Communications
Serra, G., M. S. Abdallah & G. Al Qaim: Occurrence of Rüppell’s Fox,
Vulpes rueppelli, and Sand Cat, Felis margarita, in Syria
Bishop, J. M., T. Deshti & S. Al-Ayoub: The Arabian Gulf’s first
record of the Olive Ridley, Lepidochelys olivacea, from Kuwait
Canpolat, D., M. Lillig & A. Hasbenli: Accanthopus velikensis (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783) – new to the
Turkish fauna (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Sánchez Piñero, F.: First record of the dung beetle Catharsius
sesostris Waterhouse, 1888 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Jordan
Keskin, B.: A new species of the genus Otiorhynchus Germar, 1822
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Western Anatolia
Khodabandeh, S., A. Golzari & J. Seyfabadi: Occurrence of the
Tadpole Shrimp, Triops cancriformis (Bosc,
1801) (Crustacea: Notostraca), in Iran
Kocak, C. & T. Katağan: A pycnogonid species new for the
Turkish fauna: Pycnogonum nodulosum Dohrn, 1881 (Arthropoda:
Pycnogonidae)
Moradmand, M.& A. Sarı: New record of the hermit crab Pagurus
kulkarnii Sankolli, 1961 (Anomura: Paguridae) from the Gulf of Oman, Iran
Ömer Boyacı, Y.: A species of water mite of the genus Atractides
Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia) new for the Turkish fauna
Urhan, R.: Zercon
inonunensis n. sp. (Acari: Zerconidae)
from Turkey
Volume
41 (2007)
Mammalia
Farhadinia, M. S., H. Akbari, M. Beheshti & A. Sadeghi: Ecology and
status of the Caracal, Caracal caracal, (Carnivora: Felidae) in
the Abbasabad Naein Reserve, Iran
Khorozyan, I. G. & A. V. Abramov: The Leopard, Panthera pardus,
(Carnivora: Felidae) and its resilience to human pressure in the Caucasus
Rasooli, P., B. H. Kiabi & A. Abdoli: On the status and biology of
the European Otter, Lutra lutra, (Carnivora: Mustelidae) in Iran
Aves
Aslan, A. & A. Erdoğan: On the distribution of the
White-spectacled Bulbul, Pycnonotus xanthopygos (Hemprich &
Ehrenberg, 1833), in Turkey
Reptilia
Attum, O., M. M. Esawy, W. E. Farag, A. E. Gad, S. M. Baha El Din &
B. Kingsbury: Returning them back to the wild: Movement patterns of repatriated
Egyptian Tortoises, Testudo kleinmanni Lortet, 1883 (Sauropsida:
Testudinidae)
Ibrahim, A. A.: Ecology of the Mediterranean Gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus
(Linnaeus, 1758) (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), in North Sinai, Egypt
Osteichthyes
Ahnelt, H., B. W. Coad, A. Abdoli & H. P. Zirkohy: Gobiid fishes of
the genera Chasar, Mesogobius and Neogobius (Teleostei:
Gobiidae) from Iran (South Caspian Basin)
Güclü, S. S., I. I. Turna, Z. Güclü & I. Gülle: Population structure
and growth of Aphanius anatoliae sureyanus Neu, 1937
(Osteichthyes: Cyprinodontidae), endemic to Burdur Lake, Turkey
Crustacea
Warburg, M. R., K.-O. Amar, D. Davidson, L. Sayag, Y. Schwartz, B.
Tudiver & H. Yifrach: Long-term study on a brachyuran crab community
(Crustacea: Decapoda) inhabiting a boulder shore in the Eastern Mediterranean:
relative abundance
Insecta
Mozaffarian, F., A. Sarafrazi, G. N. Ganbalani & A. Ariana:
Morphological variation among Iranian populations of the Carob Moth, Ectomyelois
ceratoniae (Zeller, 1839) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
Sharaf, M. R.: Monomorium dentatum sp. n., a new ant
species from Egypt (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) related to the fossulatum-group
Arachnida
Lourenço, W. R. & J.-X. Qi: Description of a new species of the
genus Hottentotta Birula, 1908 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Iraq
Urhan, R.: Zercon carpathicus Sellnick, 1958 (Acari:
Zerconidae), a species of mite new for the Turkish fauna
Short communications
Azar, J. F., I. Al Hasani & K. Nishimura: The Demoiselle Crane, Anthropoides
virgo (Linnaeus, 1758) (Aves: Gruidae), new to Jordan
Delima, E. C. & A. Al-Nasser: New record of the Web-footed Sand
Gecko, Stenodactylus arabicus (Haas, 1957) (Sauria: Gekkonidae),
from Kuwait
Özbek, H. & S. Anlas: New records for some Turkish Scoliidae
(Hymenoptera)
Mirmoayedi, A.: Records of three species of Ant-lions (Neuroptera:
Myrmeleontidae), new for the fauna of Iran
Moravvej, S. A., M. Potapov, K. Kamali & S. H. Hodjat: Isotomidae
(Collembola) of the Tehran region (Iran)
Akbulut (Emir), N. & M. Kaya: Records of species of Lecane
Nitzsch, 1827 new for the Turkish rotifer fauna (Ploima, Lecanidae)
Volume
40 (2007)
Mammalia
Karataş, A., M. Sözen, S. Özkurt & F. Matur: Karyology of three
bat species of the genus Myotis (M. myotis, M. bechsteinii, M.
brandtii) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Turkey
Aves
Khoury, F., M. Al-Shamlih, H. Sultan & Y. Abu-Ghalyun: The effects of
vegetation cover on the structure of bird communities in a hyperarid desert
Reptilia
Baha El Din, S. M.: A new lizard of the Acanthodactylus scutellatus
group (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Egypt
Torki, F.: Sexual dimorphism in the Banded Dwarf Gecko, Tropiocolotes
helenae fasciatus (Gekkonidae) on the western Iranian plateau
Katılmış, Y. & R. Urhan: Insects and mites
infestation on eggs and hatchlings of the Nile Soft-shelled ışrtle, Trionyx
triunguis, in Kükürtlü Lake (Turkey)
Amphibia
Delfino, M., G. Bar-Oz & L. Weissbrod: Recent shrinkage of the range
of the Eastern Spadefoot Toad, Pelobates syriacus (Amphibia:
Anura): archaeological evidence from the Bronze Age in Israel
Osteichthyes
Bagherian, A. & H. Rahmani: Morphological differentiation between
two populations of the Shemaya, Chalcalburnus chalcoides: a geometrical
morphometric approach
Turan, D., L. Tomovic & V. Pesic: Morphological variation in a
common Turkish cyprinid, Squalius cephalus across Turkish water
catchment areas
Rotifera
Kaya, M., S. Yiğit & A. Altındağ: Rotifers in Turkish
inland waters
Insecta
Lotfalizadeh, H. & B. Gharali: Some notes on the genus Sycophila
Walker, 1871 (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) in the west of Iran
Paknia, O. & H. G. Kami: New and additional records for the formicid
fauna (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Iran
Arachnida
Levy, G.: The first troglobite scorpion from Israel and a new chactoid
family (Arachnida: Scorpiones)
Ecology (Coral Reefs)
Ammar, M. S. A.: Recovery patterns of corals at Shabror Umm Gam’ar,
Hurghada, Red Sea, Egypt, after the 1998 outbreak of Acanthaster planci
Short communications
Cunningham, P.: Morphological characteristics of the Spiny-tailed
Lizard, Uromastyx aegyptius microlepis (Agamidae), from
the United Arab Emirates
Coad, B. W. & N. A. Hussain: First record of the exotic species Hemiculter
leucisculus (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae) in Iraq
Shakman, E. & R. Kinzelbach: First record of the Mantis Shrimp, Erugosquilla
massavensis (Kossmann, 1880), a Lessepsian migrant, in the coastal
waters of Libya (Crustacea: Stomatopoda)
Chikatunov, V. & T. Pavlicek: Passandridae (Coleoptera), a beetle
family newly established in the Levant
Seven, S. & M. Özdemir: Acleris lacordairana
(Duponchel, 1836) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), new for Turkey
Zahiri, R., B. Plössl & G. Tarmann: Ctenoplusia vittata
(Wallengren, 1856) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): a new genus and species record for
Iran
Misirlioglu, M.: New records of two peregrine megascolecid earthworms
from Turkey (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae)
Kami, H. G., M. Ebrahimi & H. R. Esmaeili: First record of the Sea
Turtle leech, Ozobranchus branchiatus, in Iranian coastal waters
(Hirudinea: Rhynchobdellida)
Bayram, A. T. Danisman, N. Yigit, I. Corak & Z. Sancak: New records
for the Turkish araneo-fauna: Theridion varians Hahn, 1833, Dipoena
melanogaster (C. L. Koch, 1837) and Achaearanea riparia (Blackwall,
1834) (Araneae: Theridiidae)
Volume
39 (2006)
Mammalia
El Alqamy, H. & S. Baha El Din: Contemporary status and distribution
of gazelle species (Gazella dorcas and Gazella leptoceros)
in Egypt
Hanafy, M., M. A. Gheny, A. B. Rouphael, A. Salam & M. Fouda: The
Dugong, Dugong dugon, in Egyptian waters: distribution, relative
abundance and threats
Shehab, A. H. & I. H. Mamkhair: Notes on two species of horseshoe
bats, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum and R. euryale
(Rhinolophidae, Chiroptera), from northern Syria
Aves
Charter, M., Y. Leshem, I. Izhaki, M. Guershon & Y. Kiat: The diet
of the Little Owl, Athene noctua, in Israel
Kaboli, M., M. Aliabadian, M. Thevenot, C. P. Guillaume & R. Prodon:
Ecological segregation between Iranian wheatears
Reptilia
Bauer, A. M., T. Jackman, E. Greenbaum & T. J. Papenfuss:
Confirmation of the occurrence of Hemidactylus robustus Heyden,
1827 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Iran and Pakistan
Cheatsazan, H., H. G. Kami, B. H. Kiabi & V. Rabani: Sexual
dimorphism in the Caucasian Rock Agama, Laudakia caucasia
(Sauria: Agamidae)
Rajabizadeh, M. & N. Rastegar-Pouyani: Additional information on the
distribution and morphology of Coluber (s. l.) andreanus (Werner,
1917) (Reptilia: Colubridae) from Iran
Osteichthyes
Esmaeili, H. R. & Z. Piravar: On the karyotype of Cyprinion tenuiradius
Heckel, 1849 (Pisces: Cyprinidae) from the Southwest of Iran
Insecta
Ackland, D. M. & D. Werner: Description of a new species of Alliopsis
Schnabl & Dziedzicki (Diptera, Anthomyiidae) from Armenia and Georgia that
is predaceous on black fly larvae (Diptera, Simuliidae)
Calmasur, Ö. & H. Özbek: Check-list of the Argidae fauna
(Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of Turkey
Özden, Ö., N. Uygun & U. Kersting: Ladybird beetles (Coleoptera:
Coccinellidae) from northern Cyprus, including six new records
Arachnida
Cobanoglu, S. & M. Doganlar: A new Pyemotes (Acari:
Pyemotidae) reared from larvae of the Almond Seed Wasp, Eurytoma amygdali
(Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) from Hatay, Turkey
Short communications
Khaleghizadeh, A. & M. E. Sehhatisabet: Temporal variation in the
numbers of the Alexandrine Parakeet, Psittacula eupatria, in
Tehran, Iran
Soorae, P. S., H. S. Das & H. Al Mazrouei: Records of sea snakes
(subfamily Hydrophiinae) from the coastal waters of the Abu Dhabi Emirate,
United Arab Emirates
Shakman, E. & R. Kinzelbach: The Halfbeak Fish, Hemiramphus far
(Forskal, 1775), in the coastal waters of Libya
Yaka, U. & R. Yüce: The Rough Ray, Raja radula
Delaroche, 1809 (Rajidae), new to the Sea of Marmara, Turkey
Keskin, B. & J. Ferrer: First record of Xanthomus cf. ovulus
Seidlitz, 1895 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Turkey
Pashaei Rad,
S., R. Abassi & E. Ebrahimi: Two new records for the fauna of solitary
wasps of the subfamily Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Iran
Bayless, M. K.: A review of the ixodid tick species Amblyomma gervaisi
(Ixodoidea) and its host Varanus sp. (Sauria: Varanidae) from Yemen
Volume
38 (2006)
Mammalia
Darvish, J., M. Javidkar & R. Siahsarvie: A new species of wood
mouse of the genus Apodemus (Rodentia, Muridae) from Iran
Karatas, A., M. M. Gharkheloo & M. Rehnema: The karyotypic
characterisation of the Large Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber,
1774) (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Iran
Reptilia
Torki, F.: Spermatogenesis in the agama Trapelus lessonae
(Agamidae: Reptilia) in the Central Zagros Mountains, Iran
Werner, Y. L., G. Babocsay, H. Carmely & M. Thuna: Micrelaps in
the southern Levant: variation, sexual dimorphism, and a new species
(Serpentes: Atractaspididae)
Osteichthyes
Soofiani, N. M., Y. Keivany & A. M. Shooshtari: Contribution to the
biology of the Lizardfish, Saurida tumbil (Teleostei: Aulopiformes),
from the Persian Gulf
Crustacea
Mirabdullayev, I. M. & R. S. Urazova: Redescription of the female
and first description of the male of Microcyclops karvei (Kiefer &
Moorthy, 1935) (Copepoda, Cyclopoida)
Insecta
Kolarov, J. & H. Ghahari: A study of the Iranian Ichneumonidae
(Hymenoptera): I. Pimplinae and Tryphoninae
Özgökce, M. S., R. Atlihan, I. Kasap, F. Özgökçe, Ş. Yildiz, M.
Demir & E. Polat: The distribution and habitat of Calomera littoralis mandli
(Mandl, 1967) (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) on the coastal margin of Lake Van in
Turkey
Zahiri, R., A. Sarafrazi, L. Salehi & J. G. Kunkel: A geometric morphometric study on populations
of the Rice Stem Borer, Chilo suppressalis Walker (Lepidoptera:
Crambidae) in northern Iran
Arachnida
Karataş, A. & M. M. Gharkheloo: A contribution to the knowledge
of Hottentotta saulcyi (Simon, 1880) (Scorpiones: Buthidae)
Lourenco, W. R. & J.-x. Qi: A new species of Androctonus
Ehrenberg, 1828 from Afghanistan (Scorpiones, Buthidae)
Ecology
Al-Horani, F. A., S. A. Al-Rousan, M. Al-Zibdeh & M. A. Khalaf: The
status of coral reefs on the Jordanian coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
Short communications
Krystufek, B. & R. Hutterer: The Ural Field Mouse Apodemus
uralensis – a mammal species new to Iran
Falahatkar, B.: Biological characteristics of the Persian Sturgeon, Acipenser
persicus Borodin, 1897 in the southern Caspian Sea
Boyaci, Y. Ö.: New records of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Turkey
Seyyar, O., A. Topcu & H. Demir: New records of ground spiders
(Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Anatolia
Volume
37 (2006)
Mammalia
Arslan, A.: A karyotypic study on the Indian Crested Porcupine, Hystrix indica (Kerr, 1792),
in Turkey (Mammalia: Rodentia)
Gharkheloo, M. M.: Morphological and karyological peculiarities of Cricetulus migratorius
(Pallas, 1773) (Mammalia: Rodentia) in the Zanjan province of Iran
Sharifi, M. & V. Akmali: Postnatal growth in the Lesser Mouse-eared
Bat, Myotis blythii,
in captivity
Reptilia
Kami, H. G., V. Hojati, S. Pashaee Rad & M. Sheidaee: A biological
study of the European Pond Turtle, Emys orbicularis persica, and the
Caspian Pond Turtle, Mauremys caspica caspica, in the Golestan and Mazandaran
provinces of Iran
Sindaco, R., G. Serra & M. Menegon: New data on the Syrian
herpetofauna, with a newly-recorded species of snake
Osteichthyes
Esmaeili, H. R. & A. H. Shiva: Reproductive biology of the Persian
Tooth-carp, Aphanius persicus (Jenkins, 1910) (Cyprinodontidae), in
southern Iran
Khalaf, M. A., F. A. Al-Horani, S. A. Al-Rousan & R. S. Manasrah:
Community structure of the family Pomacentridae along the Jordanian coast, Gulf
of Aqaba, Red Sea
Mollusca
Mirzajani, A. R. & R. Vonk: Spatial and temporal aspects of the
lagoon cockle and its commensal amphipod in the southwestern Caspian Sea
Insecta
Nieves-Aldrey, J. L. & B. Massa: Contribution to the knowledge of
the Cynipidae (Hymenoptera) of Jordan
Levey, B.: A preliminary checklist of the Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of
Lebanon
Arachnida
Lourenço, W. R. & J.-x. Qi: Further considerations on the genus Butheolus
Simon, 1882 and description of one new species from Saudi Arabia
(Scorpiones: Buthidae)
Urhan, R., Y. Katılmış & A. Öksüz Kahveci: Vertical
distribution of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) and some ecological
parameters affecting the distribution pattern in south-west Turkey
Hydrozoa
Akber Saadalla, H. A.: First record of the freshwater medusa Craspedacusta
sp. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from an artificial lake in Baghdad, Iraq
Short communications
Shehab, A. H., I. H. Mamkhair & Z. S. Amr: Remains of the Water
Vole, Arvicola terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Microtinae, Rodentia), from
north-western Syria
Khaleghizadeh, A. & M. Javidkar: On the breeding season diet of the
Common Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, in Tehran, Iran
Rastegar-Pouyani, N. & H. Faizi: On a collection of the Near Eastern
Fire Salamander, Salamandra infraimmaculata semenovi (Salamandridae),
from Kurdistan Province, Western Iran
Lillig, M. & G. Aydın: Three species of Tenebrionidae new to
the Turkish fauna (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Volume
36 (2005)
Mammalia
Matur, F. & M. Sözen: A karyological study on
subterrranean mole rats of the Spalax leucodon Nordmann, 1840
(Mammalia: Rodentia) superspecies in northwestern Turkey
Rudolph, B.-U., A. Liegl & A. Karatas: The bat
fauna of the caves near Havran in Western Turkey and their importance for bat
conservation
Reptilia
Mahjoorazad, A., H. Cheatsazan, H. G. Kami & V.
Rabani: Distribution of the Yellow-Headed Agama, Laudakia nupta fusca
(Blanford 1872), in Iran (Squamata: Agamidae)
Osteichthyes
Golani, D. & Y. Levy: New records and rare occurrences
of fish species from the Mediterranean coast of Israel
Crustacea
Karaytug, S. & S. Sak: A new species of Schizopera
Sars, 1906 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Israel
Kubanc, C.: New records of recent Ostracoda
(Crustacea) for the marine fauna of Turkey
Insecta
Aydin, G., E. Sekeroglu & E. Arndt: Tiger beetles
as bioindicators of habitat degradation in the Çukurova Delta, southern Turkey
(Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
Azari-Hamidian, S.: Larval habitat characteristics of
mosquitoes of the genus Culiseta Felt, 1904 (Diptera: Culicidae) in the
Caspian Sea littoral, Iran
Lotfalizadeh, H. & B. Gharali: Introduction to the
Torymidae fauna (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Iran
Pont, A. C., D. Werner & E. A. Kachvoryan: A
preliminary list of the Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) of Armenia
Sirin, Ü. & Y. Sahin: New records of black flies
(Diptera, Simuliidae) for the Turkish fauna
Rotifera
Altindag, A., M. Kaya, M. Borga Ergönül & S.
Yigit: Six Rotifer species new for the Turkish fauna
Short Communications
Tez, C., Y. Özkul, H. Yildiz, M. Dursun & I.
Gündüz: The karyotype of the Goitred Gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa,
from Turkey
Cofta, T., R. Lasecki & R. Karakas: First record
of the Blackstart, Cercomela melanura, in Turkey
Cheatsazan, H., A. Mahjoorazad, V. Rabani & H. G.
Kami: Distribution of the Yellow-Lemon Tree Frog, Hyla savignyi
Audouin, 1827 (Anura: Hylidae) in Iran
Aydin, G.: Distribution of the Dune Cricket, Schizodactylus
inexpectatus (Orthoptera: Schizodactylidae), in the Cukurova Delta,
southern Turkey
Larsen, E. & L. Blaustein: New backswimmer
(Heteroptera: Notonectidae) records for Israel
Wiesner, J.: On some tiger beetles collected in the
Yemen Arab Republic (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae): 94th contribution to knowledge
of the Cocindelidae
Özdikmen, H.: Korgella nom. nov., a replacement
name for the genus Heinzia Korge, 1971 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) non
Sayn, 1891
Türkes, T. & O. Mergen: Records of spiders
(Araneae: Theridiidae and Araneidae) new for the Turkish Fauna
Volume
35 (2005)
Mammalia
Javidkar, M., J. Darvish & A. R. Bakhtiari: Discriminant
analysis of dental and cranial characteristics in the wood mice Apodemus
hyrcanicus and A. hermonensis (Rodentia, Muridae) from Iran
Yousef, M. A. & Z. S. Amr: Altitudinal stratification
and habitat selection of rodents in Dana Nature Reserve, Jordan
Reptilia
Mahmoud, I. Y., A. Y. AlKindi, T. A. Ba-Omar, S.
Al-Siyabi, S. N. Al-Bahry, A. Q. Elshafie & Ch. S. Bakheit: Emergence
pattern of Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, hatchlings under
laboratory and natural conditions
Osteichthyes
Bilecenoğlu, M.: Observations on the burrowing
behaviour of the Dwarf Blaasop, Torquigener flavimaculosus
(Osteichthyes: Tetraodontidae) along the coast of Fethiye, Turkey
Coad, B. W. & N. Keyzer-de Ville: On the validity
of the species in the snow-trout genus Schizocypris Regan, 1914
(Cyprinidae: Actinopterygii)
Pazira, A., A. Abdoli, E. Kouhgardi & P.
Yousefifard: Age structure and growth of the Mesopotamian Spiny Eel, Mastacembelus
mastacembelus (Banks & Solander in Russell, 1974) (Mastacembelidae),
in southern Iran
Tarkan, A. S., Ö. Gaygusuz, H. Acıpınar
& Ç. Gürsoy: Characteristics of a Eurasian cyprinid, Shemaya, Chalcalburnus
chalcoides (Güldenstädt, 1772), in a mesotrophic water reservoir
Antennata: Diplopoda
Enghoff, H. & S. A. Moravvej: A review of the
millipede fauna of Iran (Diplopoda)
Insecta
Collingwood, C. A. & A. van Harten: Further
additions to the ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Yemen
Can Doğanlar, F. & N. Arap: On the geometrid
moths (Lepidoptera) of northern Cyprus, including three new records
Halperin, J. & M. Wysoki: On biology and ecology
of Uresiphita limbalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Israel
Çoruh, S., H. Özbek & J. Kolarov: A contribution
to the knowledge of Tryphoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Turkey
Short Communications
Kılıç, A. & R. Karakaş: Recent observations on the Great Bustard, Otis tarda, in
south-eastern Anatolia
Seçkin, S. & Y. Coşkun: Small mammals in the diet of the Long-eared Owl, Asio otus,
from Diyarbakır, Turkey
Khaleghizadeh, A., M. E. Sehhati-Sabet, M. Javidkar
& A. Adjami: On the diet of the Long-legged Buzzard, Buteo rufinus,
in the Turan Biosphere Reserve, Semnan, Iran
Khaleghizadeh, A., M. Golshekan-Tatafi, M. Youzbashi
& F. Aghabeigi: Autumn diet of the Crested Lark, Galerida cristata,
in Iran
Albayrak, S.: First record of Tapes philippinarum
(Adams & Reeve, 1850) (Bivalvia: Veneridae) from the Sea of Marmara
Bolu, H.: On the coccinellid fauna
(Coleoptera) of almond orchards in south-eastern and eastern Anatolia
Demir, E.: Two new records for the Cicadellidae fauna
of Turkey (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha)
Doğanlar, O.: Occurrence of Lectocybe invasa
Fisher & La Salle, 2004 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) on Eucalyptus camaldulensis
in Turkey, with a description of the male sex
Haddad, N. J., S. Fuchs, J. Haddaden & J.-P.
Kopelke: Record of Sphecophaga vesparum Curtis, a natural enemy
of Vespa orientalis in northern Jordan
Turan, D. & V. Pešić: Atractides allgaier
Gerecke, 2003 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae), a species new for the water
mite fauna of Turkey
Topçu, A., A. Babaşoğlu, K. Boğaç Kunt,
H. Demir & O. Seyyar: Mimetus laevigatus (Keyserling, 1863),
a species new for the araneofauna of Turkey (Araneae, Mimetidae)
Volume
34 (2005)
Mammalia
Dietz, Ch., I. Schunger, Ö. Keşapli-Didrickson, A.
Karataş & F. Mayer: First record of Pipistrellus pygmaeus
(Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Anatolia
Reptilia
Baha El Din, S. M.: An overview of Egyptian species of
Hemidactylus (Gekkonidae), with the description of a new species from
the high mountains of South Sinai
Jandzík, D.: Record of a
black-coloured Natrix in northeastern Turkey, with comments on the
validity of the Bigheaded Grass Snake, Natrix megalocephala Orlov &
Tunijev, 1987
Osteichthyes
Attaala, A. M. & B. S. Rubaia: First record of the
eel Anguilla bengalensis from Arabia with notes on freshwater
fishes from Hadhramout, Yemen
Khalaf, M. A.: Five additional
records of fishes in the Gulf of Aqaba, including Mola mola (Forskål, 1775),
new for the Red Sea
Crustacea
Bariche, M. & J.-P. Trilles: Preliminary check-list
of Cymothoids (Crustacea: Isopoda) parasitic on marine fishes from Lebanon
Insecta
Ghayourfar, R.: Three new species of termite from Iran
(Isoptera, Termitidae)
Tirgari, S. & O. Paknia: First record of the
ponerine ant Pachycondyla sennaarensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Iran, with
notes on its ecology
Annelida
Csuzdi, C. & T. Pavlíček: The earthworms
(Oligochaeta) of Jordan
Arachnida
Vignoli, V.: Description of a
new species of Compsobuthus Vachon, 1949 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from
southern Iran
Limnology and Oceanography
Al-Najjar, T.: Seasonal and
spatial variations in mesozooplankton biomass in the northern Gulf of Aqaba
Saygı (Başbuğ), Y.: Seasonal succession and distribution of zooplankton in Yeniçağa Lake
in northwestern Turkey
Ustaoğlu, M. R., S. Balık, D. Özdemir Mis
& C. Aygen: The zooplankton of some mountain lakes in the Taurus
Range (Turkey)
Short Communications
Khaleghizadeh, A. & S. Khormali: The Brown Bear, Ursus arctos, feeding on sunflowers in the
vicinity of Golestan National Park, Iran
Bilecenoğlu, M., G. Bilge & H. Filiz: First
record of the Small-toothed Argentine, Glossanodon leioglossus
(Valenciennes, 1848) (Osteichthyes: Argentinidae), from Turkey
Esmaeili, H. R. & B. W. Coad: Range extension for Mystus pelusius (Solander in Russell,
1794) (Actinopterygii: Bagridae) in southern Iran
Özuluğ, O.: Living specimens of Ilyocypris salebrosa
Stepanaitys, 1959 (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Thrace, Turkey
Atay, E. & B. Altıntaş: Anania verbascalis
(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Pyraustinae), new
for Turkey
Keskin, B.: A new record for the Tenebrionidae
(Coleoptera) fauna of Turkey: Mesostena puncticollis Solier, 1835 (Pimeliinae: Tentyriini)
Volume
33 (2004) - Mammalia
Preface by D. L.
Harrison
General
Cunningham, P. L.: Checklist and status of the
terrestrial mammals from the United Arab Emirates
Shehab, A. H.: Diet of the Eagle Owl, Bubo bubo,
in Syria
Shehab, A. H., A. Daoud, D. Kock & Z. Amr: Small
mammals recovered from owl pellets from Syria (Mammalia: Chiroptera, Rodentia),
Chiroptera
Akmali, V., M. Sharifi & H. Farassat: Habitat
selection by the Common Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus s.
l. (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), in the Dinevar region of western Iran
Karataş, A. & M. Sözen: Contribution to
karyology, distribution and taxonomic status of the Long-winged Bat, Miniopterus
schreibersii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), in Turkey,
Sharifi, M. & Z. Hemmati: Variation in the diet of
Mehely’s Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus mehelyi, in three contrasting
environments in western Iran
Shehab, A. H. & I. H. Mamkhair: First record of
the Egyptian Fruit Bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus, from Syria
Carnivora
Abi-Said, M. R.: Breeding potential of the Striped
Hyaena, Hyaena hyaena syriaca Matschie, 1910 (Carnivora)
in captivity
Qarqaz, M. A., M. A. Abu Baker & Z. S. Amr: Status
and ecology of the Striped Hyaena, Hyaena hyaena, in Jordan
Kasparek, M., A. Kasparek, B. Gözcelioğlu, E.
Çolak & N. Yiğit: On the status and distribution of the Striped
Hyaena, Hyaena hyaena, in Turkey
Thol-Schmitz, H.: Status of the Eurasian Otter, Lutra
lutra, in Turkey, and experiences with establishing a National Otter
Data Base
Artiodactyla
Abbasian, H., B. H. Kiabi & K. Kavousi: Food
habits of Wild Goat, Capra aegagrus aegagrus, in the
Khorramdasht area, Kelardasht, Iran
Kiabi, B. H., R. A. Ghaemi, M. Jahanshahi & A.
Sassani: Population status, biology and ecology of the Maral, Cervus elaphus
maral, in Golestan National Park, Iran
Masseti, M.: Artiodactyls of Syria
Rodentia
Abi-Said, M. R.: First record of the Five-toed Jerboa,
Allactaga euphratica, Thomas, 1881 in Lebanon
Coşkun, Y.: A new species of mole rat, Nannospalax
munzuri sp. n., and the karyotype of Nannospalax tuncelicus
(Coşkun, 1996) (Rodentia: Spalacidae) in eastern Anatolia
Cetacea
Güçlüsoy, H., N. Veryeri & Ş. Cirik: Cetacean
strandings along the coast of İzmir Bay, Turkey