sentence: asia and eurasia : in afghanistan ; bhutan ; the caucasus ( in armenia , azerbaijan , georgia , and russia ) and ciscaucasia ( in dagestan ) ; much of china and taiwan ; india ( in the states of assam , bihar , himachal pradesh , jammu and kashmir , and west bengal ) ; indonesia ( in papua province , java , the lesser sunda , and maluku islands ) ; japan ( in the prefectures of hokkaido , honshu , kyushu , shikoku , and the ryukyu islands ) ; kazakhstan ; the korean peninsula ; kyrgyzstan ; mongolia ; pakistan ; papua new guinea ; eastern and western siberia ; tajikistan ; northeastern turkey ; turkmenistan ; uzbekistan ; and yemen .