Fauna of Arabia, Volume 20 Special Issue on Socotra Archipelago

About this book

This special issue is devoted to the fauna of the Socotra Archipelago. The objectives of this volume are: to contribute to a biodiversity inventory for the benefit of the international scientific community, local scientists and decisionmakers in environmental management and conservation; to provide scientific baseline information for accurate species identification; and to contribute to a faunistic and biogeographical analysis of the Archipelagos unique terrestrial and marine biota.

Contents

General
Preface: H.R.H. Prince Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz   1
Foreword: H.E. Prof. Dr Saleh Al-Athel   3
Foreword: H.E. Dr Mohamed Lutfi  Al-Eriani   5
Introduction: Editors   6
Di Micco De Santo, T. & Zandri, E.: Main features of the Socotra Archipelago and ongoing conservation efforts   9
Fleitmann, D., Matter, A., Burns, S.J., Al-Subbary, A. & Al-Aowah, M.A.: Geology and Quaternary climate history of Socotra   27
Klaus, R. & Turner, J.R.: The marine biotopes of the Socotra Archipelago   45

Corals
DeVantier, L., De’Ath, G., Klaus, R., Al-Moghrabi, S., Abdulaziz, M., Reinicke, G.B. & Cheung, C.: Reef-building corals and coral communities of the Socotra Archipelago, a zoogeographic ‘crossroads’ in the Arabian Sea   117

Rotifers
Van Damme, K. & Segers, H.: Anomopus telphusae Piovanelli, 1903, an epizoic bdelloid (Rotifera: Bdelloidea) on the Socotran endemic crab Socotrapotamon socotrensis (Hilgendorf, 1883)   169

Chilopods
Würmli, M.: A new species of Thereuonema (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) from Socotra Island   177

Crustaceans
Mazzini, I. & Sardella, R.: Notes on the freshwater ostracods (Arthropoda: Crustacea) and on the Quaternary deposits of Socotra   181
Van Damme, K., Dumont, H.J. & Weekers, P.H.H.: Anostraca (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from Socotra Island: A new Branchipodopsis and its relationship with its African and Asian congeners   193
Taiti, S. & Ferrara, F.: The terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea: Oniscidea) of the Socotra Archipelago   211

Arachnids
Weygoldt, P. & Van Damme, K.: A new troglomorphic whip spider of the genus Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Socotra Island   327
Rheims, C.A. Brescovit, A.D. & van Harten, A.: Hersiliidae (Araneae) of Yemen, with description of a new species of Hersilia Audouin, 1826 from Socotra Island   335
Alderweireldt, M. & van Harten, A.: A preliminary study of the wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) of the Socotra Archipelago   349

Insects
Mendes, L.F.: Zygentoma (Insecta) from the Socotra Archipelago   357
Barra, J.-A.: Springtails of the genus Seira Lubbock, 1869 (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from Socotra Island   399
Haas, F., Pohl, H. & Wranik, W.: Dermaptera of the Socotra Archipelago, with the description of a new species   409
zur Strassen, R.: On some Thysanoptera (Insecta) from Socotra Island   421
Adlbauer, K.: A new species of Iranobrium (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Obriini) from Socotra Island   431
Cassola, F. & Pohl, H.: The female of Socotrana labroturrita Cassola & Wranik, 1998 (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)   435
Schawaller, W.: New species and records of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) from the Socotra Archipelago   439
Toskina, I.N.: A new species of Clada Pascoe, 1887 (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) from the Socotra Archipelago   459
Wewalka, G.: Dytiscidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species   463
Collingwood, C.A., Pohl, H., Güsten, R., Wranik, W. & van Harten, A.: The ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Socotra Archipelago   473
Greathead, D.J.: Bombylioidea (Diptera) from the Socotra Archipelago: A new species of Phthiria Meigen, 1803, and a checklist of species   497

Reptiles
Rösler, H. & Wranik, W.: A key and annotated checklist to the reptiles of the Socotra Archipelago   505

Birds
Gedeon, K. & Neumann, V.: Notes on Socotra starling Onychognathus frater Sclater & Hartlaub, 1881 and Somali starling O. blythii Hartlaub, 1859 (Aves) on Socotra Island   535

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