Fauna of mantids and orthopterans (Insecta: Mantodea, Orthoptera) of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, Russia

Abstract

Ruchin A, Mikhailenko AP. 2018. Fauna of mantids and orthopterans (Insecta: Mantodea, Orthoptera) of the Mordovia StateNature Reserve, Russia. Biodiversitas 19: 1194-1206. The data on the distribution and habitat confinement of one Mantodea species and44 Orthoptera species in the Mordovia State Nature Reserve are given. Of these, one species of Orthoptera (Calliptamus italicus) isrecorded for the first time for the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, four species (Mantis religiosa, Phaneroptera falcata, Conocephalusfuscus, Tettigonia caudata) are recently penetrated, one species (Conocephalus fuscus) is reported in the Republic of Mordovia for thefirst time. In the fauna of mantids and orthopterans of the Mordovia Reserve, three ecological groups were identified: polytopic, notconfined to certain biotopes (14 species), hygrophilous representatives of intrazonal habitats (5 species) and xerophiles. Among thelatter, there are species of extrazonal habitats (13 species) and confined to dry pine forests (7 species). The steppe group was notrepresented. For the three key habitats with the largest number of identified species, brief botanical descriptions are given. Factorsinfluencing the species composition and current state of fauna of mantises and orthopterans of the Mordovia Reserve are discussed, andmeasures are proposed for the conservation of vulnerable species.

Post-fire fauna of carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in forests of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve (Russia)

“…The damage degree of the forest area was unequal in different parts of the Mordovia Reserve (Grishutkin, 2012;Ruchin, 2016;Khapugin et al, 2016). These consequences began to play a certain role in the insect distribution Ruchin & Mikhailenko, 2018;. This study was aimed to study the carabid fauna in the forests of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve, affected by the 2010 fires.…”

The use of simple crown traps for the insects collection

“…The most popular methods are hand-picking, sweep net trapping, Barber traps, pitfall traps, light traps, Malaise traps, flight interception traps, cow manure-baited pitfall traps, rodent burrow pitfall traps (Jackman & Nelson, 1995;Bouget et al, 2008;Worthington & Larsen, 2010;Alekseev & Shapoval, 2011;Vrdoljak & Samways, 2012;Ali et al, 2015;Egorov & Semishin, 2016;Jocque et al, 2016;McCravy et al, 2016;Alexeev & Aleksanov, 2017;McCravy, 2017McCravy, , 2018Tomaszewska et al, 2018;Bulgakova & Pyatina, 2019;Kazantsev et al, 2019;Krivosheina & Krivosheina, 2019;Rozhnov et al, 2019;. Recently, acoustic signals, automatic light traps, green Lindgren funnel traps, baited tube traps, emergence traps covering tree hollows, cryptozoan boards, and other trap types are widely used to determine the entomofauna (Dobony & Edwards, 2001;Carrel, 2002;Quinto et al, 2013;Skvarla & Dowling, 2017;Korb, 2018;McCravy, 2018;Ruchin & Mikhailenko, 2018;Benediktov & Belyaev, 2019).…”

Cranefly fauna (Diptera: Limoniidae, Pediciidae, Tipulidae) of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia

“…Craneflies of Сentral European Russia comprise about 200 species. The insect fauna of the Republic of Mordovia has also been intensively studied in recent years (Ruchin and Artaev 2016;Ruchin and Makarkin 2017;Ruchin and Egorov 2017Ruchin 2018;Ruchin and Grishutkin 2018;Ruchin and Mikhailenko 2018;2019a, 2019bTomaszewska et al 2018; The material was collected in 2014-2018 by two authors, A.B. Ruchin and G.B.…”