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The steppe insect fauna in the Russian Far East: Myth or reality?

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The fauna of Lepidoptera in the forest-steppe zone of southern plains of the Russian Far East is analyzed. The contribution of species with the optimal distribution in the steppe and forest-steppe zones of Eurasia into the above fauna is insignificant; eastern Asian temperate species dominate in the region. The classification analysis of lists of species from local steppe and forest-steppe faunas of both Far-Eastern humid “prairies” and southern Transbaikalian region is performed. In these regions, xerophilous species constitute the essential part of the local fauna. The necessity of revision of the present zoogeographical zoning of the Far East is substantiated.

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Original Russian Text © A.B. Martynenko, 2007, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 221–228.

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Martynenko, A.B. The steppe insect fauna in the Russian Far East: Myth or reality?. Entmol. Rev. 87, 148–155 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873807020030

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