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ENTOMOFAUNA OF THE KURIL
ISLANDS

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Table 16.  Distribution of Entomofauna and Some Vertebrates on the Kuril Range

	Number of Species on the Islands
	southern	central		northern
		Urup	Simushir
Insects:
aphids (Aphidinea)	64	5	1	3
cicadas (Cicadinea)	64	6	2	5
bugs (Heteroptera)	119	9	2	4
ground beetles (Carabidae)	75	6a	8	23
carrion beetles (Silphidae)	16	-	-	4
clickbeetles (Elateridae)	46	3	-	5
darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)	6	3	-	1
leaf-beetles (Chrysomelidae)	66	1	-	2
long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae)	66	6	-	1
bark beetles (Ipidae)	53	9	-	2
butterflies (Rhopalocera)	55	12	3	4
cutworm moths (Noctuidae)	160	17	3	15
geometrids (Geometridae)	114	18	3	7
crane flies (Tipulidae)	64	7	1	12
bumblebees (Bombinae)	14	3	1	6
birdsb	233	170	95	100
reptiles and amphibiansc	7	-	-	1

 

^a The number of ground beetles on Urup is less than on Simushir, doubtless due to the insufficiency of the collections on that island.
^b The number of species of birds on Simushir and the Northern Kurils are cited from the study by A. I. Gizenko (1955), and is preliminary.  In particular, when a more detailed study is made of the birds of the northern islands, the number of their species will obviously inevitably increase due to Kamchatka species.
^c The number of species of reptiles and amphibians are cited from the study of S. D. Pereleshin and P. V. Terent'ev (1963).

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