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Beetles (Coleoptera) in polar deserts of the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago

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In the course of five expeditions to the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, four beetle species were found: Micralymma brevilingue (Staphylinidae), Chrysolina subsulcata, Ch. septentrionalis (Chrysomelidae), and Dienerella filum (Latridiidae). The zonal plant communities do not contain beetles at all. All the species found prefer intrazonal habitats, where the snowless season is prolonged. Only M. brevilingue is common enough in various biotopes of the archipelago. All the beetle species found are wingless, rather small, polytopic and have vast distribution areas (D. filum is a cosmopolitan polyzonal species, and the others are semi-circumpolar arctic forms). Obviously, M. brevilingue should be considered as the most cold-tolerant beetle species of the Northern Hemisphere. This is the first report on the coleopteran fauna in the polar desert zone.

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Original Russian Text © O.L. Makarova, A.O. Bieńkowski, V.I. Bulavintsev, A.V. Sokolov, 2007, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 11, pp. 1303–1314.

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Makarova, O.L., Bieńkowski, A.O., Bulavintsev, V.I. et al. Beetles (Coleoptera) in polar deserts of the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago. Entmol. Rev. 87, 1142–1154 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873807090059

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