The genus Verbena L. (Verbenaceae) comprises 250 species mainly in tropical and temperate America. It is represented in Egypt by two species viz. Verbena ozcinalis L. and V. supina L. (Taeckholm, 1974). Verbena ozcinalis is widely distributed mainly in the northern hemisphere while V. supina is of Mediterranean, West Irano}Turanian and East Saharo-Arabian distribution (Fienbrun-Dothan, 1978). I...

The horse fly fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Jordan is, after Israel, the richest in the Levant, with 24 known species. During the 20-year project "The Ecology and Zoogeography of the Lepidoptera of the Near East," we regularly collected blood-feeding flies, resulting in 11 additional species of Tabanidae for Jordan. The new records are: Atylotus quadrifarius (Loew, 1874), Chrysops caecutiens (L...

Climate change is expected to have an impact on the geographical distribution ranges of species. Endemic species and those with a restricted geographic range may be especially vulnerable. The Persian jird (Meriones persicus) endemic rodent inhabiting mountainous areas Irano-Turanian region, where future desertification form threat In this study, modelling algorithm MaxEnt was used assess climat...

Abstract Visual conditions around Palaeolithic sites determine how the landscape was perceived by prehistoric hunter-gatherers. By placing site in different landscapes, visual foci were encoded locational characteristics of places. For Early Ahmarian Levant, it can be shown that differ significantly with combination large ungulate prey exploited at respective location. A Higuchi viewshed approa...

Irano-Turanian floristic region in Turkey appears to be the center of origin Crepis foetida subsp. rhoeadiflolia (Asteraceae). In this study, karyotype and flow cytometric analyses six populations C. were performed. The cytogenetic characteristics using multivariate (cluster analysis, principal components analysis) evaluated a cytogeographic context. Two main groups are found based on among dis...

In this paper, the new taxa Lepidium ferganense (Brassicaceae) was recorded for the flora of Iran for the first time. This taxon belongs to Irano-Turanian region. It was compared with the closest taxa in the present study. In addition, a morphological description, several Illustrations, and a distribution map were presented.