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Natura Somogyiensis 25 15-20 Kaposvár, 2014 Tullbergiidae fauna (Collembola) in Kermanshah province (Iran) with addition of new records Morteza Kahrarian1*, Reza Vafaei-Shoushtari1, Ebrahim Soleimannejadian2, Masoumeh Shayanmehr3 & Bahman Shams-Esfanabad1 1 Department of Entomology, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran, e-mail: mortezakahrarian@gmail.com 2Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran, e-mail: r-vafaeil@iau-arak.ac.ir department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran Kahrarian, M, Vafaei-Shoushtari, R., Soleimannejadian, E., Shayanmehr, M, & Shams-Esfanabad, B.: Tullbergiidae fauna (Collembola) in Kermanshah province (Iran) with addition of new records. Abstract: In this study, the fauna of Tullbergiidae was investigated in different regions of Kermanshah province during 2012-2014. The specimens were collected from the surface layer of soil and leaf litter. Totally 6 species and 3 genera were found. The species Metaphorura denisi (Bagnall, 1935), M. macrochaeta (Rusek, 1976), M. italica (Thibaud, 1996), M. hylophila (Rusek, 1982) and Fissuraphorura duplex (Lucianez & Simon, 1992) are new for the fauna of Iran; it is also the first time that the genera Fissuraphorura (Rusek, 1991) is reported for the fauna of Iran. More ever the species Fissuraphorura duplex is reported for the first time from Asia. Keywords: new genera, new species, Iranian fauna. Introduction Collembola are one of most abundant soil animals in most terrestrial ecosystems. Among Collembola, Tullbergidae is one of the smallest collembolan family and easily recognized by very small size (0.4-1.5 mm except Tullbergia antarctica Lubbock, 1876 which is 3-4 mm), without pigmentation, eyes and furcula (Palacios-Vargas & Salazar- Martinez 2014). The body chaetotaxy of the taxa are very similar, and the main differences among the genera are the sense organ structure of antennal organ III, and the chaetotaxy of the antennal segment IV. The type and number of the pseudocelli and the shape and number of vesicles of postantennal organ are important in identification of species and genera level (Palacios-Vargas & Catalan 2013). Although Tullbergiidae has a total of 32 genera and 216 species in the world (Bellinger et al. 2013); but only 7 species in 4 genera are known from Iran (Cox 1982, Yoosefi-Lafooraki & Shayanmehr 2013, Shayanmehr et al. 2013 and Falahati et al. 2013). These species have been found in Iranian localities such as Central part, Mazandaran, Gilan, E. Azarbaijan, Zanjan, a part of Kermanshah province and Kohgiloyeh associated whit soils with high organic matter content. The lack of studies in other parts of the country could explain their absence in other Iranian locations.
