Саратовская область

Soil and climatic conditions are factors influencing the composition and structure of microbial communities of various agrocenoses. Since microbiota plays a key role in the development of plant resistance to pathogens, studying its regional dynamics is of signifi cant scientific and practical interest. A comparative study of the microbiota of eggplant (Solanum melongena L., 1753) plants grown in diff erent soil and climatic conditions in the right- and left-bank areas of the Saratov Region was conducted. One hundred healthy leaf samples were microbiologically analyzed.

For 11 years, the staff of the Scientifi c Research Center “Botanical Garden” of SSU named after N.G. Chernyshevsky have been reintroducing a rare protected plant, Calophaca wolgarica (L. fi l.) DC., into potentially suitable places in the Saratov Region. This species is considered extinct in the region. Restoration of the species in the Saratov Region will expand its range, increase the biodiversity of the local fl ora and enrich biogeocenoses. Seed material for the reintroduction of C. wolgarica was collected from natural cenopopulations in the Volgograd Region.

Concerning the distribution of Allium caeruleum Pall. and A. regelianum A. K. Becker, recent literary sources provide confl icting information. Based on the data from the doctoral dissertation of A. O. Tarasov, the results of expeditionary research and our own herbarium collections, it is stated that Allium caeruleum is distributed in the Ozinsky (at least in the vicinity of the village of Nepryakin) and in the Aleksandrovo-Gaisky (at least in the vicinity of the village of Kamyshki) districts of the Saratov region. The presence of A.

The article provides a brief analysis on the species composition of microlepidopteran genus Neofriseria Sattler, 1960 (Gelechiidae) of the fauna of Russia and some neighboring countries. A list of six species of this genus known for the territory of Russia at present is given. One species of the genus, previously described only relating to males from Greece, is recorded for Russia (Saratov region) firstly as a new subspecies with a description and illustrations of the genital structures of both sexes.

On the basis of our 1996-2009 field surveys in the Saratov region and adjacent territories, and our analysis of the literature data, the distribution and abundance dynamics of Dendrocopos major, D. syriacus, D. medius, D. leucotos, and D. minor is considered. The present habitation of D. leucotos in the Saratov region has been established to be associated with ripe deciduous woods in the Saratov Right-Volga-bank region; the bird penetrates for nesting up to 51°40* lati­ tude North along the Khopyor and Medveditsa river valleys. D.