Pests

Area of distribution and damage of Steppe Darkling Beetle (Blaps halophila Fisch.)

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Authors:

Object specialist - A.N. Frolov
GIS-specialist - M.I. Saulich

Date of creation:

25.08.2004.

Scale:

1:20,000,000.

Accuracy of map:

Map was created based using published literature and maps of scale 1:20,000,000-60,000,000.

Projection:

"Alber's Equal Area Conic for the USSR", 9, 1001, 7, 100, 0, 44, 68, 0, 0.

Basic content:

Vector map consisting of 2 layers. Zones of distribution and damage are shown by polygons.

Accuracy of the classifier:

Within the area of insect distribution, we have denoted a zone of low damage, where the density of darkling beetles regularly exceeds economic threshold (5 larvae per sq. m.), and B. halophila is merely a background species, amounting to no less than 10% of total number of darkling beetles.

Mapping procedure:

The map of Steppe Darkling Beetle's range and harm was compiled using a map prepared by G.S.Medvedev (1984). Records of B. halophila from Uzbekistan (including Kara-Kalpakstan), Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan (Arnol'di L.V., Borkhsenius N.S., et al., eds. 1949; Vasil'ev, 1974; Shamuratov, 1979; Anonym, 2002-2003.) is not confirmed by surveys of the regions specified above. The zone of harm was compiled based on published materials listed below. The zones of distribution and damage of B. halophila were specified using maps of vegetation (Barysheva et al., 1992); the zone of damage was additionally specified using a map of agricultural lands.

Sources of data:

Aleinikova, M.M. & Utrobina, N.M. 1964. Fauna of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) and their distribution in the middle of Volga Region. In: Pochvennaya Fauna Srednego Povolzhya. Moscow: Biological Institute of the Kazan branch of the AS USSR. p. 52-66. (In Russian)
Alekhin, B.A. 1971. Darkling beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), harming to sugar beet in the southeast of the European part of the USSR. Entomol. Review 50 (2): 292-308. (In Russian)
Alekseeva, E.E. 1974. Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) in the steppe of western Baikal Area. Zool. Zhurn. 53 (3): 468-471. (In Russian)
Andreeva, G.A. 1975. Distribution of the most important species of click beetles, alleculid beetles, and darkling beetles on main crops sown after different cultures in the central steppe of the Ukrainian SSR. In: Problemy pochvennoi zoologii. Materialy 5th Vsesoyuzn. Konf., Vilnius: Institut zoologii i parazitologii. P. 62-62. (In Russian)
Anonym. 1967. Pests and diseases of agricultural crops in Kharkov Region. The forecast of their appearance in 1967 and control measures. Kharkov: Prapor, 109 p. (In Russian).
Anonym. 1997. The forecast of appearance and distribution of pests, diseases of agricultural crops, weeds, quarantine objects on the territory of Rostov Region in 1997 and recommended measures of their control. Rostov-na-Donu: MSKh i prod. Rossii, 128 p. (In Russian)
Anonym. 2002-2003. Institute of ecology of plants and animals of Ural Branch of Acad. Sci. Russia - Zoological Museum and Herbarium of the Institute. Blaps halophila Fischer von Waldheim, 1822.
Arnol'di L.V., Borkhsenius N.S., et al., eds. 1949. Harmful animals of Middle Asia (reference book). Moscow - Leningrad: AN SSSR. 404 p. (In Russian).
Barysheva Yu.A., Bruk S.I., Dmitriev A.V., Stroev K.V., Sutormin A.I., Shashko D.I., Yagust S.I. 1992. Zones of soil-vegetation types. In: Geographical Atlas of the USSR. Moscow: Com. Geodesy and cartography of the USSR. 48 p. (In Russian)
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Dolin, V.G. 1954. Distribution of the most important species of click beetles, alleculid beetles, and darkling beetles in the conditions of western part of the Odessa Region (former Izmail). In: 3 Ekologich. Konf. Tez. Dokl. Part 1. Kiev: Kiev University. p. 54-64. (In Russian)
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Kryzhanovskii O.L., ed. 1974. Insects and mites as pests of agricultural crops. V. 2. Coleoptera. Leningrad: Nauka, 335 p. (In Russian)
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