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Apatophysis vedica (Danilevsky, 2008)

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Vahe Martirosyan

Very interesting!
What about its biology?

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Marci
"S'i fosse fuoco, arderei 'l mondo,
S'i fosse vento, lo tempesterei,
S'i fosse acqua, i' l'annegherei
s'i fosse dio, mandereil' en profondo" ( Cecco Angiolieri).

Mi sa che la larva vive nei terreni salati mangiando le radici di piante di quegli ambienti, tipo zigofillo, come la sua congenere tunisina.
Se guardi la zona, 10 km a Sud di Vedi c'è un'area paludosa, probabilmente salmastra, sfruttata con delle saline (sempre che non siano risaie). Probabile che venga dai terreni incolti circostanti.

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Maurizio Gigli
http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups
http://bup.xoom.it/

Most of species are connected with desert and hemi-desert landscapes. Only one
species of the area - A. pavlovskii Plav. - is definitely known as inhabitant of broadleaf forests. A. sinica is distributed in mountain humid bush landscapes. All known
larvae feed in roots of shrubs and trees. The seasonal activity is rather different in different
species. Imagoes of most species are active at the end of summer, in August-September (A.
baeckmanniana, A. pavlovskii), others are active in spring and in the beginning of summer,
in April-May (A. margiana), but the most common and most numerous in the collections
- A. caspica was collected from April to August. A. pavlovskii and A. baeckmanniana are
active at night and are easily attracted by light. A. margina was collected by me in sandy
dunes near Bairam-Ali at the day time. A. vedica was regularly collected at light by M.
Kalashian (personal message). Many Apatophysis species are extreamly rare in collections.
Some of them (A. kashgarica, A. roborowskii, A. hotanica) are still known by single old type
specimens.
from Danilevsky M. L. Apatophysis of Russia and adjacent regions, 2008. In: Studies and reports of District Museum Prague-East.
Taxonomical Series 4 (1-2): 7-56, 2008

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Vahe Martirosyan