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The First Data on the Diving Beetles from the Coastal Tundra of the Yugorsky Peninsula, Polar Russia

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Diving beetles were collected in July 2018 in the most typical water bodies and other habitats in the vicinity of Amderma (the Kara Sea coast, northern Yugorsky Peninsula). The revealed fauna of Dytiscidae comprised 15 species from 7 genera, the most diverse of which were Agabus and Hydroporus. The record of Dytiscus lapponicus was the northernmost for the species, while the records of Hydroporus cf. fuscipennis and Agabus pallens were the northernmost for the Palaearctic parts of their ranges. Original photographs illustrate peculiar specimens of D. lapponicus with dark head, pronotum, and scutellum. Most of the recorded species have vast Holarctic arctic-boreal or arcticboreo-montane distributions. The species composition of Dytiscidae was quite similar to that in the northernmost mainland regions (Pakhancheskaya Bay, Kara Tundra, and Pamal) and Vaigach and Dolgy islands, and less similar to that of the southern tundra regions (Kanin Peninsula, Bolvanskaya Bay, Antipayuta village area, and Gyda Peninsula). Among the habitats studied, thermokarst lakes had the most diverse assemblage of diving beetles, with up to 14 species and the highest recorded density of 1150 ind./100 trap-days. In contrast, only 2 or 3 species were recorded on salt marshes, and their density was significantly lower, 1.8–3.6 ind./100 trap-days.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are sincerely grateful to the staff of the Amderma weather station and the management of the Northern Department of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring for the provided opportunity to live and work at the weather station. We also thank A.S. Sazhnev (Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok) for help with making the illustrations of Dytiscus lapponicus morphology, O.L. Makarova (Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), P.N. Petrov (Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University), and K.V. Makarov (Moscow State Pedagogical University) for advice during manuscript preparation.

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The work of A.A. Prokin was carried out within the framework of State research assignment 121051100109-1 from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The work of M.S. Bizin was partly supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 20-54-56054).

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    A. A. Prokin

  3. Voronezh State University, 394018, Voronezh, Russia

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Bizin, M.S., Prokin, A.A. & Yefeikin, B.D. The First Data on the Diving Beetles from the Coastal Tundra of the Yugorsky Peninsula, Polar Russia. Entmol. Rev. 103, 432–443 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873823040048

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