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Entomobrya corticalis

Description

Entomobrya corticalis (Nicolet, 1841)

Material examined: 3 specimens, Darkesh-Jozak forest, 37°25′17″N, 56°40′29″E, 1255 m a.s.l, collected from soil under Oak trees (Quercus castaneifolia), April 2018; 3 specimens, Golil-Sarany rangeland, 37°49′11″N, 57°55′33″E, 1629 m a.s.l, collected from soil under Juniper trees (Juniperus excelsa), April 2018; 2 specimens, Zoeram village, 37°19′42″N, 57°44′31″E, 1258 m a.s.l, collected from soil in alfalfa fields, April 2018.

Habitat and distribution in Iran: This species has already been reported from soil and leaf litter in Golestan (Golestan National Park) by Cox (1982) and Khanahmadi (2018).

General distribution and ecology: This species has a Palaearctic distribution and it is common under bark on dead trees, both hardwood and conifers (Fjellberg, 2007).

Notes

Published as part of Mehrafrooz Mayvan, Mahmood, Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh & Greenslade, Penelope, 2022, Contribution to the knowledge of Entomobryomorpha (Hexapoda: Collembola) from Northeastern Iran with new records and a key to the species, pp. 151-174 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (2) on page 154, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.8.2.151, http://zenodo.org/record/15859183

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References

  • Cox, P. (1982) The Collembola fauna of north and north western Iran. Entomologist ' s Monthly Magazine, 118, 39-43.
  • Khanahmadi, S. (2018) Comparison fauna, diversity and density of Collembola associated with three different climate (coldarid, semi-arid-temperate and sub humid temperate) in national park of Golestan (Unpublished Master' s Dissertation), Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Sari Agricaltural Science and Natural Resources University (in Persian with English abstract).
  • Fjellberg, A. (2007) The Collembola of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Part II: Entomobryamorpha and Symphypleona. Vol. 35. Brill, Leiden, 264 pp. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004157705.i-265