Zoogeographic features of the stonefly fauna (Plecoptera) of the River Terek basin, North Ossetia

Abstract

Data on the stonefly fauna of rivers and brooks of the Terek river basin in North Ossetia are discussed. The fauna is largely endemic, comprising 12 endemic and 16 subendemic species among a total of 34.

The millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, northern Caucasus, Russia, with special reference to the fauna of the North Ossetian Nature Reserve

“…Land mollusks [Walther et al, 2018] or numerous insect groups [Kornoukhova, 1986;Belousov, 1998;Abdurakhmanov, 2017] can serve as some fresh examples to this rule. More specifically, click beetles [Penev, Alekseev, 1996] and stone flies [Cherchesova, Zhiltsova, 2003;Cherchesova et al, 2009] of North Ossetia -Alania, however disparate ecologically, and both winged and thus mostly capable dispersers, also appear to show distribution patterns quite similar to those outlined above for Diplopoda. Not only is the whole Caucasus region, but also North Ossetia -Alania as its part dominated by presumably autochthonous elements (endemics and subendemics at the species and, to a lesser degree, generic levels).…”