Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok X. - Natura Somogyiensis 25. (Kaposvár, 2014)
Kararian M. - Vafaei-Shoushtari R. - Soleimannejadian E. - Shayanmehr M. - Shams-Esfanabad B.: Tullbergiidae fauna (Collembola) in Kermanshah province (Iran) with addition og new records
Natura Somogyiensis 25 21-26 Kaposvár, 2014 New records of Poduromorpha for the Iranian springtail fauna (Collembola) Morteza Kahrarian Department of Agronomy and plant breeding, Collage of Agriculture, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran, e mail: mortezakahrarian@gmail.com Kahrarian, M.: New records of Poduromorpha for the Iranian springtail fauna (Collembola). Abstract: In this study the fauna of Poduromorpha was investigated in west part of Iran (Kermanshah, Hamadan and Lorestan provinces) during 2013 and 2014. The specimens were collected from the surface layer of soil and leaf litter. Among different species of Poduromorpha, Willemia huddenbrocki (Huther, 1959), W. scandinavica (Stach, 1949) and Axenyllodes monoculatus (Jordana & Ardanaz, 1981) are recorded as new for the fauna of Iran. A. monoculatus is also new for Asia. Keywords: new genera, new species, Hypogastruridae, Odentellidae. Introduction Collembola or springtails comprise one of the most widespread and abundant groups of terrestrial arthropods. They are found everywhere, to the utmost reaches of multicellular animals in the Antarctic and Arctic and in all habitats except the open oceans and deep areas of large lakes. Among Collembola, Poduromorpha is one of the smallest of the four Collembola orders and easily recognized by having a distinct prothorax that bears dorsal setae and third and fourth abdominal segments that are similar in sizes. The first study on Poduromorpha in Iran was carried out by Cox (1982). He listed Collembola fauna (70 species belonging to 30 genera in 5 families) from the northwestern and central north provinces of the country, which 30 species of them were belonging to Poduromorpha (Cox 1982). After that, other Iranian researchers started to work on the Collembola fauna in several regions of Iran therefore the list of species increased. Western Iran is a large section of this country. Most of the region is co-located with Zagros Mountains starting from Turkey and Kurdistan and ending in Persian Gulf. Data on the Collembolan fauna in west part of Iran are little known. Prior to this work, only a few papers have been published on this subject (Kahrarian & Arbea 2013, Kahrarian et al. 2012, 2013 and 2014, Ghahramaninezhad et al. 2013). These studies have only been conducted in Kermanshah province and there is no data of Collembola in other provinces.
