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Megalothorax incertus Borner 1903

Description

Megalothorax incertus Börner, 1903

Megalothorax incertus B̂rner, 1903: 160.

MAZ: Yoosefi Lafooraki 2014; Yoosefi Lafooraki & Shayanmehr 2014b; Shayanmehr & Yahyapour 2019; KS: Kahrarian 2015, 2019.

Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil and litter under trees such as black alder, oriental beech (Fagus orientalis), date-plum (Diospyrus lotus), Persian silk tree (Albizia julibrissin), oak and maple (Acer cappadocicum).

General distribution: cosmopolitan (Papáč & Kováč 2013).

Notes

Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948

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References

  • Yoosefi Lafooraki, E. & Shayanmehr, M. (2014 b) Identification of a part of the Isotomidae (Hexapoda: Collembola) fauna in Mazandaran province. Iranian Journal of Plant Protection Science, 45 (2), 337 - 345. [in Persian]
  • Yahyapour, E., Vafaei-Shoushtari, R. & Shayanmehr, M. (2019) Stody on the Collembola Fauna of Mazandaran (Iran) and new records from the forests of this province. Journal of Entomological Research, 10 (4), 103 - 113.
  • Kahrarian, M. (2015) Study on population dynamics, biodiversity, fauna and habitat suitability modeling of springtails (Apterygota: Collembola) in Kermanshah provience. Ph. D. Thesis, Islamic Azad University, Arak, 91 pp. [in Persian with English summary]
  • Papac, V. & Kovac, L. (2013) Four new troglobiotic species of the genus Megalothorax Willem, 1900 (Collembola: Neelipleona) from the Carpathian Mountains (Slovakia, Romania). Zootaxa, 3737 (5), 545 - 575. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3737.5.3