Ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of open biotopes in the Volga-Kama state reserve
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https://doi.org/10.24852/2411-7374.2024.1.04.16Keywords:
Ground beetles, abundance, assemblages structure, meadows, riparian zone, Volga-Kama ReserveAbstract
Systematic study of beetles along with the study of soil mesofauna in the reserve was started in 2010. The absence of long-term faunistic studies makes the study of the fauna of ground beetles relevant in its territory. In this connection, the aim of this work was to study the structure of the beetle communities of the Volga–Kama Reserve. In this report the results are presented only for the open cenoses. Beetles were samples in 2016-2021 using Barber traps. In each of the biotopes studied, observations were made for three consecutive years. 100 species of carabids belonging to 35 genera were recorded. Poecilus versicolor (Sturm, 1824), Amara plebeja (Gyllenhal, 1810), Pseudoophonus rufipes (De Geer, 1774) and Cicindela campestris Linnaeus, 1758 were dominant. Species of genera Poecilus, Amara, Bembidion, Pterostichus, Dyschirius, Harpalus, Pseudoophonus and Cicindela dominated in most of the studied biotopes. In the composition of communities, species of the transpalaearctic habitat group, mesophylls had a large share, and by trophic group – zoophages and myxophytophages. Species with spring type of reproduction, macroptera were the most frequently recorded. The highest dynamic density of beetles was recorded in low-level meadows, the lowest in the riverine zone. The greatest species richness of beetles was found in middle-level meadows (79 species), less in low-level meadows (61), and only 26 species of beetles were recorded in the riparian biotopes. The habitat specificity had the greatest influence on the structure of carabid complexes
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