Supplements to Proceedings ZIN

Supplements to Proceedings ZIN publish monographs and contributions of conferenses (symposia), held at the Zoological Institute RAS.

Zoological Institute RAS bears costs for publications of one supplement with a volume of 10 printer's sheets per year. Publication of additional supplements as well as expenses connected with exceedings of volume and/or colour printing should be covered from different sources.

Format of the supplements corresponds to those of Proceedings ZIN. Editing of each volume of the supplements is carried out by appointed editors.

Volume 323 (Supplement 8), 2019. S.A. Belokobylskij, K.G. Samartsev and A.S. Il''inskaya (Eds.). Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Volume II. Apocrita: Parasitica

Saint Petersburg, Zoological Institute RAS, 594 p.

Date of publication — December 12, 2019

Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Volume II. Apocrita: Parasitica

Hymenoptera is one of the largest insect orders, with a world fauna approximately of 160 thousand species in more than 8420 genera from 94 extant families, a Palaearctic fauna of 50–60 thousand estimated species, and a Russian fauna of 15.3 thousand species in 1999 genera from 78 families. The modern classification of Hymenoptera is given. The second volume treats the all recent groups of parasitoids (11 superfamilies, 43 families, 1466 genera, about 10.6 thousand species) recorded in the fauna of Russia. The sections for each of the 43 families include characteristics, number of taxa, references, and an annotated catalogue of the genera and species (subspecies) recorded from the fauna of Russia. For each valid genus, the type species, synonymy, short characterization, and number of species are given. For each valid species the synonymy, known host (often to genus or family level only) or sometimes host plants and distribution (in Russia and in general) are provided. The book is illustrated using geoschemes for Russia, Europe, and China. The large bibliography helps to assess the level of study of each family. The index of scientific names of Hymenoptera (more than 21 thousand names) will be useful for parasitoid taxa searching.

Proposals to citation of the Catalogue.

Volume 323 (Supplement 7), 2019. Yu.N. Gorodilov. About the origin of the "Cambrian Explosion" phenomenon and on the origin of animal types

Saint Petersburg, Zoological Institute RAS, 125 p.

Date of publication — December 6, 2019

About the origin of the "Cambrian Explosion" phenomenon and on the origin of animal types

The term “Cambrian explosion” refers to the sudden appearance of a large number of new taxa of animals of higher rank (classes, types) on the geological scale, documented by the excavation of sedimentary strata belonging to the Cambrian period of geological time. For 150 years, this evolutionary phenomenon has remained unsolved from the standpoint of traditional Darwinism, nor from the standpoint of its later modifications – the Synthetic theory of evolution and the theory of discontinuous equilibrium. Up to now, creationism was regarded as the only alternative to solving this problem. The author of this work, analyzing the vast factual material presented by embryologists, zoologists, paleontologists, molecular biologists, including those obtained at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, offers a new natural-scientific concept to explain the causes for the explosion of macroevolutionary variability at the beginning of the Cambrian period.

 

 

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