{"title":"A new spider species of the genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from the Lut desert, Iran","authors":"Dragomir Dimitrov","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2353894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2353894","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Uroctea Dufour, 1820 is described from the Lut desert, Iran, based on the male. The species is close to the Uroctea grossa complex, but morphologically very distinct from all of it...","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"120 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140940226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James M. Bishop, Manickam Nithyanandan, A. J. Turner, Link Morgan, Prosanta Chakrabarty
{"title":"New records of seahorses (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus) from Kuwait in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf","authors":"James M. Bishop, Manickam Nithyanandan, A. J. Turner, Link Morgan, Prosanta Chakrabarty","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2333077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2333077","url":null,"abstract":"A single species of seahorse, Hippocampus kuda, has been reported from the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Anatomical and DNA analyses of specimens from Kuwait indicate a second species occurs in the norther...","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"2022 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140598069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of Norbanus Walker (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) and six new records from Iraq","authors":"Ayad Alsendi, Hossein Lotfalizadeh, Ali A. Kareem","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2333076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2333076","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the collection from Karbala, southern Iraq, seven species from six genera of the family Pteromalidae were identified. All of the genera are the first records of the fauna of Iraq. Norbanus...","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140298266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Description of unique defensive behaviours of the Radiant Sun Beetle Prionotheca coronata (Tenebrionidae)","authors":"Dana Hammoud, Aaron Bartholomew, Sabina Ahmed","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2333078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2333078","url":null,"abstract":"The defensive behaviours of Prionotheca coronata have not been well-described in the past. This species possesses long, sharp spines along its abdominal margin and along its inner hind legs. When d...","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140298276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lukáš Pola, Damien M. Egan, Faris A. Mukhtar, Ricardo M. Oliveira Ramalho, David C. Wells, Josh Smithson, David Olson
{"title":"On the occurrence of Lichtenstein’s Short-fingered Gecko, Stenodactylus sthenodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Saudi Arabia","authors":"Lukáš Pola, Damien M. Egan, Faris A. Mukhtar, Ricardo M. Oliveira Ramalho, David C. Wells, Josh Smithson, David Olson","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2321639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2321639","url":null,"abstract":"Stenodactylus sthenodactylus (Lichtenstein, 1823) is a widely distributed naked-toed gecko found from Western Sahara throughout North Africa to Jordan. While its occurrence in Saudi Arabia was tent...","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140001655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The genus Leptobium Casey from Israel: A new species, additional records and a key to the species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)","authors":"Sinan Anlaş","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2321638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2321638","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of the genus Leptobium Casey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from Israel is described, illustrated, and distinguished from congeners: Leptobium korotyaevi sp. n. (Tel-Aviv, Sh...","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"2016 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mehmet Anıl Oğuz, Mehmet Şerif Aydın, Gürkan Öztürk
{"title":"Casting Light on Fluorescence in Hemidactylus turcicus (Squamata: Geckonidae)","authors":"Mehmet Anıl Oğuz, Mehmet Şerif Aydın, Gürkan Öztürk","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2321641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2321641","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Zoology in the Middle East (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139923701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First record of the Checkerboard Worm Lizard, Trogonophis wiegmanni (Kaup, 1830) (Squamata: Trogonophidae) from high altitude in northeastern Algeria","authors":"Abdenour Kheloufi","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2321642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2321642","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Zoology in the Middle East (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139923686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mostafa R. Sharaf, Hathal M. Al Dhafer, Mahmoud S. Abdel-Dayem, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood
{"title":"Cardiocondyla hashemi sp. n., a new species of the C. batesii species-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Saudi Arabia, with a key to the Saudi species","authors":"Mostafa R. Sharaf, Hathal M. Al Dhafer, Mahmoud S. Abdel-Dayem, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2321640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2321640","url":null,"abstract":"A new species, Cardiocondyla hashemi sp. n. is described and illustrated using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) based on the worker caste. Cardiocondyla hashemi is a member of the C. batesii sp...","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139923684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Stalling, Wolfgang Waitzbauer, Amir Weinstein
{"title":"Contribution to the knowledge of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus wahrmani Chopard, 1963 (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) with the description of the female","authors":"Thomas Stalling, Wolfgang Waitzbauer, Amir Weinstein","doi":"10.1080/09397140.2024.2314339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2314339","url":null,"abstract":"The hitherto unknown female of the ant cricket Myrmecophilus wahrmani is described. The species has been known only from Israel and was recorded for the first time in Jordan. Pictures of live and c...","PeriodicalId":24024,"journal":{"name":"Zoology in the Middle East","volume":"255 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139770005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}