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Qazi F. - Shayanmehr M.: Additional records for Iranian Collembola (Hexapoda: Entognatha) fauna from Tehran province
Natura Somogyiensis 25 27-34 Kaposvár, 2014 Additional records for Iranian Collembola (Hexapoda: Entognatha) fauna from Tehran province Fahimeh Qazi1*, Masoumeh Shayanmehr2 'Msc student of Entomology, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran, e-mail: Fahime_ghazi@gmail.com 2Assitant Professor, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran, e-mail: Shayanm30@yahoo.com Qazi, F. & Shayanmehr, M.: Additional records for Iranian Collembola (Hexapoda: Entognatha) fauna from Tehran province. Abstract: In this study, the genus of Triacanthella Schaffer, 1897 and the species Triacanthella intermedia (Dünger and Zivadinovic, 1984) report for the first time for Iranian fauna. Additionally, the species Ceratophysella stercoraria (Stach, 1963), Hypogastrura vernalis (Carl, 1901), Hypogastrura manubrialis (Tullberg, 1869), Orthonychiurus ci.folsomi (Schaffer, 1900), Folsomides parvalus (Stach, 1922), Folsomia penicula (Bagnall, 1939), Entomobrya lindbergi (Stach, 1960), Pseudosinella octopunctata (Boemer, 1901), Heteromurus major (Moniez, 1889) and Cyphoderus albinus (Nicolet, 1842) were identified for the first time from Tehran province. The specimens were extracted by Berlese funnel from soil and leaf litter or were caught by pitfall traps. Keywords: Collembola, Fuana, Berlese funnel, Iran, Tehran. Introduction Collembola is concluding one of the oldest groups of Arthropoda (Rapoport 1971). Collembola are as representatives of soil faunal diversity (Cassagne et al. 2003) and play a main role in nutrient cycle, analysis of organic matter and soil establishment; regulation of fungal populations; organizing relation with mycorhizae; bacteria colonization and all basic features in the functioning of forest ecosystems (Visser et al. 1981, Warnock et al. 1982, Faber 1992, Bardgett et al. 1998, Gange 2000, Cassagne et al. 2003, Kumssa et al. 2004). The variety of collembolan species are influenced by many sights of the soil such as pH, aeration, organic matter combination, nutrient, humus type, vegetation covering and the physical characteristics of the soil (Oliveira 1993, Salomon et al. 2004, Cole et al. 2005). The richness of native species is exclusively susceptible to environmental disorder and forest substitute, many species are non-native (Deharveng 1996). All of these characteristics suggest the emphasis of Collembola as ecological indicators of environmental quality (Huhta et al. 1967, Hole 1981, Faber 1992, Oliveira 1993, Detsis et al., 2000, Cassagne et al., 2003). Studies about these cute creators are obsolete in many parts of Iran. The first record of springtails in Iran was made by Farahbakhsh (1961) who described species Sminthurus viridis Linnaeus, 1758 from wheat and alfalfa fields in southern Iran. Cox (1982) described 70 species from
