Zoology in the Middle East, Volume 55

Contents

Mammalia
- Torsten Wronski, Khalid Alageel, Martin Plath, Mohamed A. Sandouka: Twenty years of monitoring a re-introduced population of Mountain Gazelles, Gazella gazella (Pallas, 1776), in the Ibex Reserve, Saudi Arabia

Aves
- Maryam Ghadiri Khanaposhtani, Mitra Shariati Najafabadi, Mohammad Kaboli, Azita Farashi, David Spiering:Habitat requirements of the Black Woodpecker, Dryocopus martius, in Hyrcanian forests, Iran - Grzegorz Kopij, Ifat Liven-Schulman: Diet of the Lesser Kestrel, Falco naumanni, in Israel

Reptilia
- Nastaran Heidari, Hiva Faizi, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani: Sexual dimorphism in Blanford's Fringe-toed Lizard, Acanthodactylus blanfordi Boulenger, 1918, from Southern Iran

Osteichthyes
- Mario Freinschlag, Robert A. Patzner: Shrimp-gobies in the southern Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea) (Osteichthyes: Gobiidae)

Crustacea
- Murat Ozbek: A new freshwater amphipod species, Gammarus katagani sp. nov., from Turkey (Amphipoda: Gammaridae)

Insecta
- Maximilian Fischer, Ahmed Beyarslan: New species of Synaldis Foerster and Idiasta Foerster, and further records of Turkish Alysiini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae)
- Sakine Hossein Nezhad, Shahrokh Pashaei Rad, Fateme Firouzi, Donat Agosti: New and additional records for the ant fauna from Iran (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
- Janko Kolarov, Saliha Coruh: Stilbopinae, a subfamily new for the Turkish fauna (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
- Adrian C. Pont, Karine Harutyunova, Maria Harutyunova, Doreen Werner: The hunter-flies of Armenia. II. The genus Lispe Latreille, 1796 (Insecta: Diptera: Muscidae)

Arachnida
- Tarik Danisman, Zafer Sancak, Melek Erdek, Ilhan Cosar: A new species of the genus Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 from Turkey (Araneae: Hersiliidae)
- Hayriye Karabulut, Tuncay Turkes: Description of the females of the spiders Plesiophantes joosti Heimer, 1981 and Araeoncus clavatus Tanasevitch, 1987 from Turkey (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
- Matthew R. Graham, Viktoria Olah-Hemmings, Victor Fet: Phylogeography of co-distributed dune scorpions identifies the Amu Darya River as a long-standing component of Central Asian biogeography (Scorpiones: Buthidae) - Aysegul Karatas, Muhammed Mouradi Garkheloo, Munir Ucak: Contribution to the distribution of the scorpions of Iran (Arachnida: Scorpiones)
- Wilson R. Lourenco, Bernard Duhem: Two new species of scorpions from the Arabian Peninsula belonging to the genera Butheolus Simon and Compsobuthus Vachon (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

Short Communications
- Alaettin Kaya, Yuksel Coskun: A new chromosomal form of Meriones tristrami Thomas, 1892 (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) in South-east Anatolia
- Nuray Guven Veryeri: Postmortem examinations of stranded dolphins found on the Black Sea coast near Ordu, Turkey (Mammalia: Cetacea)
- Vida Hojati, Afshin Faghiri, Abdolhossein Shiravi: Diet of the Grass Snake, Natrix natrix (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes: Colubridae), in northern Iran
- Yasar Ozvarol, Mehmet Gokoglu: First record of the Indo-Pacific Milkfish, Chanos chanos (Forskal, 1775), in the Turkish Mediterranean Sea
- Fabio Cassola, Drew Gardner, Gary R. Feulner, Brigitte Howarth: Callytron monalisa (W. Horn, 1927) from the Arabian Peninsula (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
- Mohammad Ali Akrami: A new species of the oribatid mite genus Berniniella Balogh, 1983 from Iran (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae)

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