New articles listed in Web of Science and Scopus by ASU zoologists-taxonomists

The group of authors from Russia and Kazakhstan has published a review article “Sphingidae of the Mongolian Altai (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae)” that includes all available information on Sphingidae registered within the territory of the Mongolian Altai. The article gives the information on new discoveries, new data concerning biology and expansion of Sphingidae in Western Mongolia. It has to be noted that ASU scientists Candidate of Biology E.V. Guskova and Doctor of Biology R.V. Yakovlev have managed to discover 6 species new for Mongolia, which helped to extend the faunistic inventory of Mongolian Sphingidae by more that one third. The paper was published in the Spanish journal SHILAP Revista Lepidopterologia that is listed in Web of Science.

Roman V. Yakovlev co-authored by experts from Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Makhachkala and Munich has published a review of Cossidae of Russian Caucasus in the New Zealand journal Zootaxa. It includes the available and new original data on expansion and biology peculiarities of these economically important insects living within the territory of Stavropol Krai, Krasnodar Krai, Rostov Oblast, Republics of Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia and Chechnya. The article describes scientifically new species. Journal Zootaxa is the world leader in zoological taxonomy. This prestigious journal is listed in Web of Science and Scopus.

New names were given to butterfly species of Mongolia and Kazakhstan after Doctor of History A.A. Tishkin and postgraduate biology student A. Kechaikin in the article by R.V. Yakovlev “Two new species of Aricia Nicias (Meigen, 1830) from eastern Kazakhstan and western Mongolia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)” published in the British journal Entomologist’s Gazette that is listed in Scopus.

Faculty of Biology postgraduate student Alexander Fomichev has published the article “First description of the male of Drassodes Kaszabi (Aranei, Gnaphosidae)” dedicated to complex issues of Mongolian spiders taxonomy in Ukranian journal Vestnik Zoologii listed in Scopus.

“The situation of the publication of articles by Russian scientists in leading journals still remains disastrous. We, ASU zoologists-taxonomists, have taken the Presidential Decree on the increase of the number of articles by Russian scientists in journals listed in Web of Science seriously and contributed not less than ¼ scientific articles that are most important for ASU ranking positions. This is great that our university authorities support the authors, who have an opportunity to publish their works in the leading scientific periodicals, unlike with other universities of our country,” commented Doctor of Biology R.V. Yakovlev.