Study on the Collembola Fauna of Mazandaran (Iran) and new records from the forests of this province

Subject Areas : entomology and othea arthropods

R. Vafaei shoushtari ¹ , E. Yahyapour ² , M. Shayanmehr ³

1 - entomology Dep.IAU.Arak branch
2 - Islamic Azad University, Arak branch, Agricultural Faculty, Entomology Department, P.O. Box 38135/567, Arak, Iran
3 - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Mazandaran province, Iran

Received: 2018-11-28 Accepted : 2019-02-02 Published : 2019-02-20

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Abstract :

Collembola (Hexapoda) fauna of parts of Hyrcanian forest in north of Iran, Mazandaran povince was studied during 2016. Sampling was done from soil and leaf litter. Then springtails were extracted by Berlese funnel. Totally, 18 genera and 2 species belonging to 10 families were collected which 14 species were identified. Of them the genus Pogonognathellus (Tullberg, 1871) and two species Pogonognathellus sp. cf. flavescens (Tullberg, 1871) and Arrhopalites sp. gr. principalis (Stach, 1945) are recorded for the first time from Iran. Also four new species are recorded for the first tine from Mazandaran including: Entomobrya cf. schoetti Stach, 1922, Entomobrya corticalis (Nicolet, 1841), Entomobrya nigrocincta Denis, 1923 and Arrhopalites sp. gr. caecus (Tullberg, 1871).