Biodiversity and Natural Heritage of the Himalaya / Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya, Volume 7

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Language: Bilingual with contributions in English and German, each having a bilingual summary in English and German

Series covering biodiversity research in the Himalayas (taxonomy, phylogeny, faunistics and biogeography); including geology, geography, botany, veterinary zoology, zoology, and especially entomology (which comprises more than 60% of the content). See table of contents for more details.

Contents

- Vegetation-environment relationships, species richness, and climate change impacts along the elevational gradient in the Sikkim Himalaya – General findings and preliminary results from a reconnaissance field trip   9 / Offen, I. A.; M. Bobrowski, R. Jahan, A. Jentsch, S. Mal, N. Schwab & U. Schickhoff:
- Botanical research in the Kashmir Valley (India), West Himalaya (March 2019) and woody vegetation of the Mount Takht-i-Suleiman   41 / Novitskaya, G. A. & J. V. Ovchinnikov
- Diversity of the tribe Vaccinieae Reichenbach (Ericaceae: Vaccinioideae) in Darjeeling Himalaya, India   55 / Panda, S.
- Towards a georeferenced checklist of Bluegrasses Poa Linnaeus, 1753 (Poaceae) of the Pan-Himalaya   83 / Olonova, M.
- Perception of farmers towards Invasive Alien Plant Species: A case study from Punakha and Samtse Dzongkhags, Bhutan   89 / Dorji, T.; R. Yangzom, K. Dorji, R. Dorji, Ch. Wangmo, D. Dorji, J. Choden & Ch. Gyeltshen
 - The Himalayan Marmot Marmota himalayana (Hodgson, 1841) of Nepal is not the Bobak Marmot Marmota bobak (Müller, 1776) (Mammalia: Rodentia: Sciuridae)   99 / Vanisova, E. A. & A. A. Nikol’skii
- Local human influence on the Himalayan Marmot (Marmota himalayana (Hodgson, 1841)) population in Nepal (Mammalia: Rodentia)   103 / Vanisova, E. A. & A. A. Nikol’skii
- Avian Diversity in different Land Use and Land Cover in Gandaki Rural Municipality, Gorkha District, Nepal   107 / Sodari, A. & N. P. Koju
- Habitat preference of freshwater fishes along the Gamri River, Trashigang, Bhutan   119 / Wangchuk, T.; S. Rai & Ch. Gyeltshen:
- Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, India – A biosystematic appraisal   127 / Chakrabarti, S. & S. Roy
- Freshwater Molluscan Zoogeography of the Nepal Himalayas with special attention to Central and Western Development Regions (Mollusca)   145 / Nesemann, H. F.
- Non-arthropod invertebrate diversity in the Garhwal range of the Indian Himalayas   157 / Das, B. C.
- Assamiidae from the Nepal Himalayas, including a new genus and a new species, with notes on Dhaulagirius altitudinalis Martens (Arachnida: Opiliones)   175 / Martens, J.
- A conspectus of aphids (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aphidomorpha: Aphididae) of Bhutan Himalaya   185 / Chakrabarti, S.; D. Das, S. Sarkar & D. Dutta
- On the biology of the high-altitude katydid Anormalous zhangi Liu, 2011 (Insecta: Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae) from Yunnan: Development, Behaviour, Stridulation, Chromosomes, Systematics   205 / Ingrisch, S., K.-G. Heller, E. Warchałowska-Śliwa & Ch. Liu
- Zur Faunistik der Überfamilie Lygaeoidea Schilling, 1829 in Nepal mit Beschreibung von zwei neuen Arten (Insecta: Heteroptera: Pentatomorpha)   217 / Küssner, J.
- Hyblaeidae from Nepal and the Himalaya region (Insecta: Lepidoptera)   237 / Buchsbaum, U. & M.-Y. Chen
- Aplatyphylax eupalinos Schmid, 1991 - ein Erstnachweis für Bhutan (Insecta: Trichoptera)   249 / Mattern, D.
- Beetles of the subgenus Trechus sensu stricto from the Himalaya of western Nepal (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini)   253 / Schmidt, J.
- New species of Acrotrichis (Insecta: Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) from Nepal   293 / Darby, M.
- Himalayan Leiodinae Fleming, 1821 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Leiodidae) – part III. with morphological notes on the genus Agathidium Panzer, 1797   321 / Švec, Z.
- New taxonomic and faunistic data of the genus Hygrodromicus Tronquet, 1981 of the Himalayan Region (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini)   335 / Shavrin, A. V.
- On the Himalayan Pselaphini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)   349 / Löbl, I. & J. Kodada
- The fauna of Erichsonius Fauvel, 1874 of the Himalaya (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae). Part 1: New species from Nepal with systematic remarks on Palaearctic and Oriental species   369 / Uhlig, M. & B. Uhlig
- Neue Arten und Funde der Gattung Tachinus Gravenhorst (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae) aus Nepal (Teil 1)   383 / Schülke, M.
- New data on the Xantholinini from the Oriental Region. 50. New species and new records from Nepal and Yunnan (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)   423 / Bordoni, A.
- New Sericini from the Zoological Institute St. Petersburg (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)   427 / Ahrens, D.
- The first record of the genus Trichogomphus Burmeister from Nepal, and a checklist of Nepalese Dynastinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)   435 / Drumont, A.
- Description of two new Valgina from Xizang (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)   439 / Ricchiardi, E.
- Morychus (Insecta: Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) in the Himalayas, North Asia, Europe and North America: a phenomenon of distribution or a misunderstanding? Cenozoic faunogenesis as evidence of an independent distribution and evolution of Morychus Erichson, 1840 and Byrrhobolus Fiori, 1965   445 / Tshernyshev, S. E.
- A checklist of Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 of Nepal, with description of a new species (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lycidae)   457 / Kazantsev, S. V.
- A new synonymy in the genus Dermestes Linnaeus, 1785 from Himalaya (Insecta: Coleoptera: Dermestidae)   463 / Háva, J.
- New species of Himalayan Opilo (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cleridae)   465 / Gerstmeier, R.
- New and little-known soft-winged flower beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Malachiidae) from the Nepal Himalayas   485 / Tshernyshev, S. E.
- New Atomaria Stephens, 1829 from Southern Asia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae)   501 / Esser, J.
- Corticaria Marsham, 1802 aus Nepal und der Himalaya-Region mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art (Insecta: Coleoptera: Latridiidae)   521 / Rücker, W.-H.
- Four new species of the genus Laena Dejean (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Emei Shan in Sichuan, China, with remarks on their vertical distribution   539 / Schawaller, W.
- Check-list of Alleculinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Nepal, with descriptions of new species   545 / Novák, V.
- New distributional records for Pyrochroidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from the Himalaya global biodiversity hotspot region   567 / Young, D. K.
- Beschreibung von drei neuen Bockkäfern aus Nepal (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)   573 / Holzschuh, C.
- The family Attelabidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Himalayas   577 / Legalov, A. A.
- Checklist of Himalayan Alysiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)   585 / Peris-Felipo, F. J. & S. A. Belokobylskij

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