Ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of the Novosibirsk Oblast. Are there any changes in the fauna in recent decades?

Comparative transcriptomics of ice‐crawlers demonstrates cold specialization constrains niche evolution in a relict lineage

“…While two of the three best ML trees of the concatenated amino acid data disagree (Figure 2), FcLM analysis suggests that a sister‐group relationship of Grylloblattella and Grylloblatta is in fact the preferred relationship. Such a relationship is not unwarranted, as disjunct patterns between the Altai‐Sayan Mountains and western North America are seen in other poorly dispersing species insects (Dudko, 2011), suggesting suitable habitat may have been more continuous between the two regions at an earlier period of time. Previous research has shown that Grylloblatta diversify during pronounced dry periods in the climate record (Schoville, Bougie, Dudko, & Medeiros, 2019), and so this disjunct distribution across the Northern Hemisphere may parallel patterns found in other Tertiary relicts whose distribution became highly fragmented with global dry spells (Hampe & Jump, 2011).…”

Species composition and ecological structure of ground beetle communities (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in reclaimed rock dumps in the south of Western Siberia

“…In addition, in the same year, a subarid West Palearctic species Calathus ambiguus was recorded. Previously, in Western Siberia, this species was known only from the vicinity of Tyumen and river Verkh-Tula (Novosibirsk Region) (Dudko & Ivanov 2006). In 2019, for the first time in Western Siberia, Perigona nigriceps was noted as a cosmopolitan species which can fly well and is introduced to new territories, including anthropogenic and technologically transformed ones (Bieńkowski 2019).…”