Abstract
The fauna of the aphodiines of Pamir-Alay Mountains is relatively well known and is not very rich in comparison to the adjacent territories of lowland Middle Asia (Medvedev & Lopatin 1961, Protsenko 1968, Nikolajev 1987). For example, some 30 species of Aphodius Hellwig are known from Tajikistan (Medvedev & Lopatin 1961) and most of them are widely distributed in Irano-Turanian biogeographic region and in the Palaearctic. However endemism is rather high: none of these species occur outside the Palaearctic (except for recent introductions of a few species to the Nearctic and Australian Realms) and many are limited to deserts or single mountain systems.
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