SOME PROPERTIES OF THE FAUNA OF CARABID BEETLES IN THE SOUTHERN URALS

The object of this investigation was to study the properties of carabid fauna of the Southern Urals and Urals foothills on the material collected in Bashkiria. The historical survey of the study of carabids of the given region adduced. During this investigation generally accepted methods of field study of invertebrate animals have been used. The goal of this work is to discuss inhabitants, areas and some ecological data of carabids of the forest zone (with subzone of southern taiga and broad-leaved forest) as well as forest-steppe and teppe zones. The attempt of zoogenographical analysis of zonal groups of carabids permits us to draw a number of conclusions: - Among carabids of the Southern taiga species with broad holarctic and transpalaeartic areas predominate. - The subzone of broad-leaved forest is richer in the quantity of species, in variety of areas. The central place in its fauna is occupied by westpalaearctic species. - Among the species of forest-steppe zone the predominance of any area group has not been found. - The steppe zone is characterized by the tendency of the predominance of European-Kasakhstan, Kasakhstan-Mongolian and Euroasian species.