
Norbek BekchanovUzbekistan Academy of Sciences · Khorezm Mamun Academy
Norbek Bekchanov
Master of Science
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September 2020 - June 2022
September 2016 - June 2020
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The invertebrate fauna of the Hissar State Reserve in Uzbekistan remains largely unstudied. In this reserve, we collected and examined darkling beetles, which are among the most diverse and abundant groups of beetles in Middle Asia. All species were found at altitudes ranging from 1,800 to 2,500 meters, spanning the zone of Juniperus seravschanica...
The Central Asian genus Dengitha Reitter, 1887 is briefly reviewed. The following new synonymy is proposed: Dengitha crystallina Semenow, 1896 = Dengitha symmetrica G.S. Medvedev, 1964 syn. nov.; Dengitha lutea Reitter, 1887 = Dengitha hyalina Semenow, 1896 resyn. Lectotype is designated for D. crystallina. In total, two species of the genus are di...
The genus Sternodes Fischer von Waldheim, 1837 currently consists of one species with two subspecies from Karakum, Sundukli deserts and several surrounding areas. Sternodes pallasi Semenov-Tian-Shanskij et Bogatchev, 1940 is resurrected from a junior synonym of Sternodes caspicus (Pallas, 1781). The following new synonymy is established: Sternodes...
The subgenus Turcmenicola Bogatchev, 1952 (genus Colposcelis Dejean, 1834) is reviewed. Representatives of the studied taxon occur in the most lifeless rocky, gravelly and clayey areas of the deserts of Middle Asia (Ustyurt plateau, Kyzylkum desert, foothills of southern Kugitang, Betpak-Dala desert). Turcmenicola comprises five species from which...
A new species of darkling beetles of the genus Philhammus Fairmaire, 1871 is described from Amudarya bank, Khorezm Region, Uzbekistan: Ph. dilaramae Nabozhenko et N. Bekchanov, sp. n. This first representative of the genus in the country belongs to the nominotypical subgenus and most similar to Pre-Caspian Ph. zaitsevi G.S. Medvedev, 1979. The new...
Results on study of darkling beetles after expeditions 2021–2023 in western Uzbekistan (Khorezm Region, the Republic of Karakalpakstan) are summarized. In total, 79 species of tenebrionid beetles were collected, from which four taxa are new for science: Diaphanidus mamuni Nabozhenko et N. Bekchanov, sp. n., Diaphanidus crassiantennatus Nabozhenko e...
A taxonomic review of the tenebrionid genus Psammocryptus Kraatz, 1865 (Coleoptera:
Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae: Tentyriini) is given. Species of this genus are distributed
in the south of Russia (Caspian depression), Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, occurring in areas with salty soil, often in tugay forests of ri...