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Editorial ... 4
The vegetation of the coastal white sands at Taweela (Abu Dhabi Emirate) ... 5-15
by Gary Brown, Simon Aspinall and Sabitha Sakkir
An Archaeological Baseline Study of Wadi Madhab, Fujairah ... 16-36
by Peter Hellyer and Michele C. Ziolkowski
An Updated Illustrated Checklist of Dragonflies and Damselflies of the UAE ... 37-62
by Gary R. Feulner, Robert W. Reimer and Richard J. Hornby
A Note on Elasmobranches (sharks and rays) of UAE and Musandam, Oman, with special mention of
Bowmouth Guitarfish or Shark Ray (Rhina ancylostoma) ... 63-69
by Christophe Tourenq, Maral Khaled Shuriqi, Greg and Kristi Foster, Christophe Chellapermal, Sebastien Lebon and Debra Rei
Photographic essay: The versatile date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) ... 70-74
by Michele C. Ziolkowski
A note on molluscs from a Late Islamic desert site in Abu Dhabi ... 75-76
by Peter Hellyer and Richard Hornby
Survey of Breeding Osprey Pandion haliaetus in Abu Dhabi Emirate ... 77-79
by Shahid Khan, Sálim Javed and Junid Nazeer
The first record of Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus for the UAE and Arabia ... 80-82
by Nick Moran
The first record of Jouanin's Petrel Bulweria fallax in the United Arab Emirates ... 34
by Stephen L. James and Simon Aspinall
Snakes Alive: Gray's Racer Snake Platyceps cf. ventromaculatus, (Gray 1834) sensu Schätti and Schmitz 2006, on Sir Bani Yas Island ... 85-86
by Simon Aspinall and Drew Gardner
The early stages and larval food-plants of Bufoidia larseni Wiltshire and Legrain, 1997 (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) ... 87-90
by Michael P.T. Gillett
A record of a micro-moth pest, the Teak Defoliator, Hyblaea puera (Cramer, 1777), apparently new to the Gulf Region (Lepidoptera: Hyblaeidae) ... 91-92
by Michael P.T. Gillett
Three species of snout moths perviously unrecorded for the United Arab Emirates (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypeninae) ... 93-94
by Michael P.T. Gillett
The Hawklet or Savannah Hawkmoth, Sphingonaepiopsis nana (Walker, 1856), new to the United Arab Emirates (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) ... 95-96
by Michael P.T. Gillett and Brigitte Howarth
A Butterfly Migration: Blue-spotted Arabs at Jebel Barakah, western Abu Dhabi ... 98
by Drew Gardner and Brigitte Howarth
An unexpected resident butterfly of northern Oman: the Arabian Grizzled Skipper Spialia mangana (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) ... 99-101
by Michael P.T. Gillett
News, Reviews and Bibliography ... 102-108
- News
- Dugong Agreement Signed (Source: EAD press releases)
- Marawah becomes UAE's first Biosphere Reserve (Source: EAD press release)
- Controls on groundwater wells (Source: EAD press release)
- Christmas whales (Source: Gulf News)
- Zoology in the Middle East
- UAE Specimens Clarify Marine Gastropod Taxonomy (Gary R. Feulner)
- Book Reviews
- Snakes of Arabia: A Field Guide to the Snakes of the Arabian Peninsula and
its Shores by Damien Egan. 2007. Published Motivate Publishing, Dubai. ISBN 978
1 86063 239 6 208 pp. (by Drew Gardner)
- Dolphin. By Robert Baldwin and Thabit Al Abdessalaam. Published 2007
by Seawords Ltd., 95, Wilton Road, Suite 3, London SW1V 1BZ.
www.seawordsbooks.com Sponsored by
Dolphin Energy Ltd., Abu Dhabi, UAE. ISBN(10) 0-9551550-10, ISBN(13)
978-0-9551550-1-7. 147 pp., English and Arabic text. (by Edwin Grandcourt)
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ARTHROPOD FAUNA OF THE UAE, VOLUME 1, Antonius Van Harten (editor), Multiply
Marketing Consultancy Services (Publisher), Abu Dhabi, ISBN 978-9948-03-642-5
754 pages. (by Brigitte Howarth)
- Articles & Papers (compiled by Mark Beech and Peter Hellyer)
Cover Illustrations:
Front: A Pseudotrapelus sinaitus, photographed near Shawkah, in southern
Ra's al-Khaimah.
Picture by Drew Gardner
Back: A Cape Hare, Lepus capensis, photographed near Taweelah.
Picture by Drew Gardner
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