Instructions to Authors

Submission. The manuscripts must be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief or publishing editors

by e-mail.

Volume of manuscripts is unlimited.

Illustrations must be submitted as jpg (85-95% compression or 9-11 quality) or tif (LZW compression) files.

Reviewing. All manuscripts will be reviewed by minimum two referees, selected by the Editorial Board.

Illustrations: please mount them into plates at most 170х210 m (600 dpi black & white tif, 300 dpi color jpg file). Send them separately and do not insert them directly into doc file, please.

If the figures need mounting into plates, please send them as separate pictures of a higher resolution (1200 dpi black & white tif, 600 dpi color jpg file): this way they will be included without loss of quality.

Captions of figures must be as follows:

Figs. 1–6. Butterflies of the family Papilionidae in vicinity of Kiev: total view, dorsally (1, 3, 5) and ventrally (2, 4, 6). 1–2. Papilio machaon. 3–4. Zerynthia polyxena.5–6. Parnassius mnemosyne.

PRESENTATION

The manuscript must be carefully corrected with the spellchecker. The papers written in foreign languages (English, Russian, etc.), must be corrected by native English or Russian speakers prior to submission.

Latin names of genera and species must be printed in italics.

The first mention of an organism name must be accompanied by its Latin name with its author's name (please do not abbreviate!) and the year of publication as follows:

Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758.

at further mention the author's name and the year must be omitted, and the genus name is abbreviated to one letter:

М. domestica.

If different genera names mentioned in the text are beginning from the same letter, they should be abbreviated to TWO or THREE letters.

The authors of genera, tribes, subfamilies, families and suprafamilial categories should be omitted (except in the catalogues and monographs where the nomencalture is occasionally concerned).

Instead of the characters ♂and♀ the chars # and $ can be used (optionally, if you use Mac coding, for instance), correspondingly.

Spelling of geographical names in the papers written in English must must follow ether "Microsoft Encarta" or "Times Atlas of the World". It is recommended to use the terms "Region" and "District" for «область» та «район» correspondingly. Preferable translation of «Лісостеп» is «Wood-and-Steppe», and that of «Полісся» is «Polissia (Forest Zone)»

Please refer to the source (comprehensive catalogues, monographs, Internet databases), which are followed in the systematics and nomenclature of mentioned taxa, for instance:

"Nomenclature of beetle taxa follow the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Loebl & Smetana, 2007)".

Citation of a source includes the author name and year without initials:

Spencer (1949 a, b), Johnson & (2010), Balachowsky & Mesnil (1939) or (Кришталь, 1959 а, 1974 а, б, в, г). You can give also the reference to page or figure/plate number: Некрутенко (1990: 51; рис. 12; табл. 1, 3); Kotsch (1935: 12; Abb. 2).

Manuals, books and booklets where the authors are not indicated, are cited in a mnner of abbreviated title (first word only): (Catalogue..., 1980).

References. Only sources mentioned in the text should be included. Give the references in the original language spelling and sort them in alphabetic order (first cyrillic, then roman letters). Papers of the same author must be ordered chronologically. We use a maximum simplified Harvard bibliographic format (without comma between authors name and initials, which contradicts the Ukrainian punctuation rules, and extra parentheses separating) for references:

1. Articles in journals, periodicals, continuing publications and book/monograph chapters:

Name and initials of the author(-s). (Year) Title of the article. Title of the journal or book (no abbreviations!), volume(number in parentheses, if necessary), pages + numbers of plates (if separately numbered).

Nadein, K. S. (2008) New taxa of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Rovno amber, Late Eocene). Acta Geologica Sinica, 84(4), 872–882.

Johnson, J. R. & Johnson P. R. (2007) Tyrannonasemyia antennalis (Siphonaptera), a fossil flea from extant Rhinogradentia. Vestnik zoologii, 41(5), 404-424.

Hendel, F. (1914) Diptera. Fam. Muscaridae. Subfam. Platystomidae. In: Wytsman P., Ed. Genera Insectorum, Bruxelles, (157), 1–179 + I–XV.

Korneyev, V. A. (1999 c) Phylogeny of the subfamily Tephritinae: relationships of the tribes and subtribes. In: Aluja M., Norrbom A.L., eds. Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 549–580.

2. Books:

Name, and initials of the author(-s). (Year). Title of the book (entirely). Publisher, City, volume, pages+ numbers of plates or separate parts (Introduction, Foreword, etc.) (if separately numbered).

Кириченко, А. Н. (1951) Настоящие полужесткокрылые европейской части СССР (Hemiptera). Определитель и библиография. Изд-во АН СССР, Москва, Ленинград, 1–423. (Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР; Вып. 42.)

de Lattin, G. (1967) Grundriss der Zoogeographie. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, 1–602.

Meigen, J. W. (1826) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Funfter Theil. Schulz, Hamm, i–xii + 1–412.

We recommend the layout of the paper as follows:

Title (with the Latin name of the order and/or family)

First Name, Patronym or Second Given Name (if any, abbreviated) and Surname(-s) of the author(-s)

Official name of the institution, address and e-mail (for each author),

Summary in English, Russian and Ukrainian, which clearly states the subject, results and conclusions of the paper.

Key words in English, Russian and Ukrainian.

Text of the paper with the following headings:

Introduction

Material and Methods

Results

Discussion

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Examined material please list as in the example below (grouping by localities, collectors' names and abbreviation o depositaries):

Material. Ukraine: Kiev.: Boyarka, 50°19'N 30°17' E, 12.05.1934, 2 #, 2 $ (Kryshtal); idem, 10.07.2004, 2 #, 2 $; idem, 12.06.2009, 16 #, 1 $ (Pushkar) (SIZK); Cherkas.: Kaniv Nature Reserve, 12.05.1974, 2 #, 2 $ (Kryshtal); Velykyi Bukryn, 49°57'N 31°20' E, 12.08.1980, 4 #, 2 $ (Verves) (ZMUK); Kherson.: Chornomorskyi (the Black Sea) Biosphere Reserve, 46°27'N 31°59' E, 10.05.2001, 2 #, 1 $ (Petrenko) (ZMUM); Askania Nova, 46°27'N 31°59' E, 12.05.1934, 2 #, 2 $ (Ter-Minassian) (ZISP).

If you know the localicty well, better give its geographical coordinates (e.g., after «Google Earth») than mention its district, name of a farm or a locality, which is not included into any common modern maps. An old/incomplete label, which cannot be turned into coordinates, must be quoted in parentheses :

"Kaniv Nature Reserve, Zaricchia Is., 1947" (Kryshtal).

Give a list of abbreviations of the institutions, where the material is deposited : SIZK - I.I.Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, ZMUK - Zoological Museum, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, ZISP - Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg.

Figs. 7–15. Biotopes of Papilionidae. 7–9. Papilio machaon. 10–12. Zerynthia polyxena. 13–15. Parnassius mnemosyne.