A new species of Poemeniinae, Poemenia quercusia Sun & Sheng, sp. n., is described and illustrated. Specimens were reared from twigs of Quercus wutaishanica Blume in Haicheng, Liaoning province, P.R. China. A key to species known from China and the Eastern Palaearctic Region is provided.

A new species, Syntactus jiulianicus Sun & Sheng, sp.n. belonging to the tribe Pionini of the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), collected from Jiangxi Province, China, is reported. Illustrations of the new species and Syntactus delusor (Linnaeus, 1758), Syntactus minor (Holmgren, 1857) and Syntactus varius (Holmgren, 1858) are provided. A key to the species of Syntactus kn...

Two species of genus Anisotacrus Schmiedeknecht, 1913, A. externus Sheng & Sun, sp. nov. and senticosus , collected from the Natural Reserve, Huairou, Beijing, are described illustrated. A key to Eastern Palaearctic is provided.

The bats of Saudi Arabia consist 30 species and 21 genera within 9 families (Pteropodidae, Rhinopomatidae, Rhinolophidae, Emballonuridae, Nycteridae, Hipposideridae, Miniopteridae, Molossidae, Vespertilionidae). Some have been recorded from only one locality: Epomophorus labiatus, Hipposideros megalotis Asellia patrizii. taxonomy some was updated. Details on the past present distribution were i...

The local fauna of bumblebees in the lower reaches Kem River is represented by ten species. bulk species with wide distribution ranges. As regards longitudinal aspect, includes Trans-Palaearctic and Holarctic species, also a West-Central-Palaearctic Latitudinally, majority are temperate, rest arcto-temperate boreal. typical Eastern Fennoscandia. Here, predominant bumblebee those plateau landsca...

A new species of the Holarctic omaliine genus Acrolocha Thomson, 1858 from Gilan province, Northwest Iran, is described, illustrated, and distinguished other West Palaearctic congeners. The now includes a total 16 species, seven which are distributed in region.

More than 1.2 million distribution records were used to create species models for 402 Palaearctic of dragonflies and damselflies. On the basis these diversity maps total, lentic lotic whole (excluding China Himalayan region) are presented. These show a clear pattern decreasing longitudinally, with numbers dropping in eastern half Europe remaining low throughout large part Russia, then increasin...