Three new species of Onychiuridae Lubbock, 1871(Collembola, Poduromorpha) from Iran

Abstract

Iranian Onychiuridae found so far in various provinces by different researchers have been reviewed. At present, sixteen species belonging to the family Onychiuridae are recorded from Iran, six of which need confirmation. Three new species from different tribes of the family, namely Heteraphorura iranica sp. nov., (Hymenaphorurini), Protaphorura golestanica sp. nov. (Protaphorurini) and Spinonychiurus persicus sp. nov. (Thalassaphorurini), are described and illustrated. H. iranica sp. nov. belongs to the oriental species-group of the genus characterized by granulated vesicles in PAO, P. golestanica sp. nov.––to the group of Protaphorura species without pso on subcoxa 1 of all legs and with 2+2 pso ventrally on the head, S. persicus sp. nov.––to the group of Spinonychiurus species with 11 chaetae in distal whorl of tibiotarsi. A key of the Palearctic species of Heteraphorura is provided.

New records of springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) for Iran from Mazandaran forests

“…17). Shayanmehr & Kahrarian, 2017, were reported (Kapruś et al, 2017Yahyapour et al, 2020). Results of this study added three species of three families (Xenylla szeptyckii, Friesea espunaensis and Tomocerina minuta) was new for Iranian fauna.…”

The Collembola of North Forests of Iran, List of Genera and Species

“…Amongst these species, there are several reported species from forests. High abundant of Collembola in forest soil gets researchers' attention to work on their fauna [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Here, authors provide an update to the list of Collembola from northern forests of Iran published from 2013 to 2019.…”

New recorded species of Heteraphorura Bagnall, 1948 (Collembola: Onychiuridae) from Georgia with a key to the Holarctic species

“…1) using the original description of this species [Kaprus' et al, 2017]. The above mentioned species was described from the soil in forest areas in Iran [Kaprus' et al, 2017].…”

“…1) using the original description of this species [Kaprus' et al, 2017]. The above mentioned species was described from the soil in forest areas in Iran [Kaprus' et al, 2017]. So far only one species from the genus Heteraphorura Bagnall, 1948, H. variotuberculata (Stach, 1934, was recorded from Georgia [Barjadze, Djanashvili, 2008].…”

“…Arbea [2014] distinguished three species groups within the genus Heteraphorura based on the shape of PAO vesicles: Nearctic, Euro-asiatic and Oriental. Nowadays, there are 17 species in the genus Heteraphorura, from which 7 are distributed in Nearctic and 10 species and 1 subspecies in Palaearctic [Pomorski, 2002;Arbea, 2014;Bernard, 2015;Kaprus' et al, 2017].…”