New records of Onychiurinae (Collembola: Onychiuridae) for the Iranian Springtail fauna

Kahrarian, Morteza; Kapruś, Igor; Vafaei-Shoushtari, Reza; Shyanmehr, Masoumeh

New records of Onychiurinae (Collembola: Onychiuridae) for the Iranian Springtail fauna

Authors

Morteza Kahrarian ¹

Igor Kapruś ²

Reza Vafaei-Shoushtari ³

Masoumeh Shyanmehr ⁴

¹ Department of Plant breeding and Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran

² State Museum of Natural History, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Teatralna St. 18, UA-79008, Lviv, Ukraine

³ Entomology Department, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran

⁴ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran.

Abstract

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 Protaphorura levantina (Christiansen, 1956), Heteraphorura cf. japonica (Yosii, 1967) and Vibronychiurus archivari (Christiansen, 1956) were not previously recorded in Iran; it is also the first time that the genus of Vibronychiurus Pomorski, 1998, is collected and reported for the country.

Graphical Abstract

New records of Onychiurinae (Collembola: Onychiuridae) for the Iranian Springtail fauna

Keywords

Iranian fauna

new taxa findings

Onychiurids

Kermanshah

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