The aim of this study was to test the steepness of body size variation in males and females in the widespread ground beetle Pterostichus melanarius in geographical gradients. Beetles were sampled in 15 regions of Europe and Asia, and sampling territories differed 17° in latitude and 121° in longitude. We measured six linear traits in every captured beetle and formed a data set that included 2154 individuals. Body size variation in all traits in general was sawtooth, both in latitude and in longitude gradients. Regression analysis showed slight trends: in the latitude gradient, elytra parameters increased, pronotum length did not change but the width increased, and head parameters decreased. In the longitude gradient, the changes were as follows: elytra length increased, but its width did not change; pronotum length did not change, but its width increased; the head parameters decreased. Thus, we observed the elytra length increase and the head parameters decrease northwards and eastwards. We compared female and male regression curves (trait size on latitude/longitude): p-levels were significant only in four cases out of 12. Thus, we conclude that, in general, there is no evidence for the steepness in trait variation in males compared with females.

1 Федеральный исследовательский центр Институт цитологии и генетики Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук, Новосибирск, Россия 2 Новосибирский национальный исследовательский государственный университет, Новосибирск, Россия 3 Институт биологии, экологии и природных ресурсов, Кемеровский государственный университет, Кемерово, Россия 4 Институт наук об окружающей среде, Ягеллонский университет, Краков, Польша 5 Институт систематики и экологии животных Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук, Новосибирск, Россия В последние десятилетия наблюдается резкое снижение чис ленности популяций медоносных пчел и шмелей на террито рии большинства стран мира. Вклад в снижение численности данных опылителей вносят различные паразитические орга низмы (бактерии, грибы, простейшие, нематоды, клещи и на секомые). Паразиты рода Nosema (Microsporidia: Nosematidae) и родов Crithidia и Lotmaria (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) оказывают значительное негативное влияние на численность медоносных пчел и шмелей. В недавних исследованиях, про веденных с использованием ядерных ДНКмаркеров, были описаны новые виды и генетические варианты данных парази тов. Целью настоящей работы являлось установление уровня зараженности медоносных пчел и шмелей микроспоридиями (Nosema spp.) и трипаносоматидами (Crithidia spp. и Lotmaria passim), а также изучение генетической вариабельности этих паразитов на ранее не исследованной территории Индии. В работе проанализировано 119 образцов из четырех видов медоносных пчел и пяти видов шмелей. Уровни зараженности популяций пчел и шмелей паразитическими организмами на территории двух штатов (Джамму и Кашмир, Карнатака) были определены с помощью полимеразной цепной реакции с праймерами, специфичными к кластеру генов рибосомной РНК Nosema, Crithidia и Lotmaria. Совместное заражение по пуляций медоносных пчел и шмелей микроспоридиями и трипаносоматидами было зафиксировано на территории штата Джамму и Кашмир. В результате сравнительного анализа нуклеотидных последовательностей кластера генов рибосом ной РНК установлено, что в популяциях медоносных пчел на территории Индии были представлены N. bombi, N. ceranae и L. passim. Популяции шмелей были поражены микроспориди ей Nosema D и трипаносоматидами Crithidia bombi и CrithidiaThe populations of honeybees and bumblebees have been decreasing around the world in the recent decades. A va riety of pathogens and parasites, including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, mites and insects play signi ficant role in honeybee and bumblebee colonies loss. Pa rasites of the genus Nosema (Microsporidia: Nosematidae) and the genera Crithidia and Lotmaria (Kinetoplastida: Trypanoso matidae) have a significant negative impact on honeybee and bumblebee colonies. Recent studies of nuclear DNA markers of these parasites allowed to describe new species and genetic variants. The aim of this study was to investi gate the Microsporidia (Nosema spp.) and Trypanosoma tidae (Crithidia spp. and Lotmaria passim) prevalence and genetic diversity in honeybee and bumble bee populations ...

Intermediate results of the study of the fauna of bees in the relict lime forest of Mountain Shoria (Kemerovo region) are given. 74 species of bees from 15 genera and 6 families were recorded, 8 species of them are newly registered in Kemerovo region. The family Apidae is dominating in the number of species (at the expense of bumblebees) and the family Colletidae (without taking into account the bumblebees)-in the number of exemplars, because of the numerous genus Hylaeus. The highest number of species belongs to the genera Bombus (15) and Andrena (14). The population of bees varies significantly during the summer season. Most of the recorded species of bees has very wide ranges of distribution, endemics and new taxa were not discovered.

Структура населения герпетобионтных членистоногих при зарастании отвалов угольной промышленностиРабота выполнена при финансовой поддержке РФФИ, проекты № 13-04-98029 (р_сибирь_а) и № 16-44-420211 (р_а) Сведения об авторах:Еремеева Наталья Ивановна -д-р биол. наук, профессор кафедры экологии и природопользования, Институт биологии, экологии и природных ресурсов Кемеровского государственного университета (Россия, 650000, г. Кемерово, ул. Красная, 6).

Abstract. The structure of the mesoherpetobionts arthropod communities of the reclamated dump of the Krasnobrodsky coal pit (Kemerovo region, Russia) has been studied. It was established that the pioneer grouping of mesoherpetobionts arthropod represented by classes of Chilopoda, Arachnida and Insecta-Ectognatha has been formed on the dump for two years after the soil deposition. From the Arachnida, the species of the order Aranei are the most active in the stocking of the dumps. From the class Chilopoda, the species of Lithobiomorpha appear the first on the dump. Insects from the following three orders, Heteroptera, Hymenoptera and especially Coleoptera take the main part in the expansion of dumps and the formation of primary communities. Among the Coleoptera, the beetles of the family of Carabidae (44 species, dynamic density 22.9 specimens/10 trapped per day) dominate. From them, small or medium-sized species are mainly involved in stocking the dumps. There are significant differences in the complexes of ground dump carabid beetles in comparison with the control group, differing in species composition of dominant species, species richness and species diversity parameters.

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are recorded for the fauna of this region for the first time. An updated checklist of the 27 species of Andrena so far known from Tyva Republic is provided.

Abstract. Using one of the Kuzbass coal mines as an example, it is shown that Lycosidae is the most important group of spiders that settles in reclaimed dumps at the early stages of overgrowing. The most common and widespread wolf spiders on the dumps are Alopecosa accentuata, Alopecosa cuneata, and Xerolycosa miniata. The maximum of species diversity and dynamic density was discovered on the slope of the 15-yearold dump, where 14 species of Lycosidae were observed, and the dynamic density reached almost 300 specimens per 100 trap-days. The greatest number of the family Lycosidae spiders' species occurred on the differentaged slopes of dumps at the end of June, while on the terraces -in the first half of June. The highest dynamic density of wolf spiders on the slopes and terraces of the reclaimed dumps has been registered in the second half of June. It was close to 300 specimens per 100 trap-days on the slope of the 15-year-old dump. This parameter was more stable and had a bigger value at the control area in early August than on the slopes and terraces of the dumps.