Tarbiat Modares University Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 2423-8112 2 2 2016 08 08 New records of Onychiurinae (Collembola: Onychiuridae) for the Iranian Springtail fauna 219 228 20306 EN Morteza Kahrarian Department of Plant breeding and Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran Igor Kapruś State Museum of Natural History, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Teatralna St. 18, UA-79008, Lviv, Ukraine Reza Vafaei-Shoushtari Entomology Department, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran Masoumeh Shyanmehr Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran. Journal Article 2016 01 31 The fauna of Onychiurinae were investigated in different parts of Kermanshah province during 2013–2014. Specimens were collected from both leaf litter and surface layer of the soil. Totally four species from three genera were found. All of them are new for Kermanshah province and <em>Protaphorura levantina </em>(Christiansen, 1956), <em>Heteraphorura </em>cf. <em>japonica</em> (Yosii, 1967) and <em>Vibronychiurus archivari </em>(Christiansen, 1956) were not previously recorded in Iran; it is also the first time that the genus of <em>Vibronychiurus </em>Pomorski, 1998, is collected and reported for the country. https://jibs.modares.ac.ir/article_20306_a02ae7ab4105c505b3116bf57521def6.pdf