Published August 8, 2016
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New records of Onychiurinae (Collembola: Onychiuridae) for the Iranian Springtail fauna
Authors/Creators
- 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. Department of Entomology, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.
- 4. Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Scienses, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran.
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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 in Oak forest (Quercus infectoria), Elm trees and grasslands). Totally four species from three genera were found. All of them are new for Kermanshah province and Protaphorura levantina (Christiansen, 1956) 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.
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