Carabidae of the European North-East of Russia

Study Extent

Basis for this work were long-term collecting and the laboratory observations made in 1977-2015 in the territory of the European Northeast of Russia

Sampling

When performing researches used standard methods of accounting of ground beetles: selection of soil samples, soil traps, manual collecting.

Method steps

1. In each biotope selected till 20-30 soil samples of 0,0625 m2.Soil traps of Barber: we used plastic glasses of capacity 0.5 l and diameter 87 mm.We applied 4% formalin solution as a fixing liquid.The distance between traps was 3-5 m.We choose beetles from traps each 10 days.

On the territory of the European North-East of Russia 225 species of ground beetles belonging to 2 subfamilies, 23 tribas and 43 genera are registered.

1. Carabidae
   common name: ground beetle rank: family

The research area (European North-East of Russia) includes the Komi Republic and the Nenets Autonomous district of the Arkhangelsk region. To the North, the area extends to the Barents sea coast. The southern border runs along the Northern Uvalas (about 60° north latitude). From the East it is limited by the Ural mountains. The Western border may be the Timan ridge and the plain territory called the West Pritimanie.