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Kahrarian, M.: The checklist of Poduromorpha (Collembola) from the Kermanshah Province (Iran)
Submitted: 11.01, 2017; Accepted: 30.04, 2017; Published: 30.06, 2017 Natura Somogyiensis 30: 19-22. Kaposvár, 2017 HU ISSN 20613067 www.smmi.hu/termtud/ns/ns.htm The checklist of Poduromorpha (Collembola) from the Kermanshah Province (Iran) Morteza Kahrarian Department of Plant breeding and Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran, e-mail: mortezakahrarian@gmail.com Kahrarian, M: The checklist of Poduromorpha (Collembola) from the Kermanshah Province (Iran). Abstract: The checklist of Poduromorpha from the Kermanshah Province including 35 species is presented. The list is based on literature sources and personal collecting. Keywords: Collembola, Species list, Kermansha, West part Introduction Relatively little information of Collembola (especially Poduromorpha and Symphypleona) is available from Iran. However the Collembola fauna of some part of Iran was overview in the recent years (Shayanmehr et al. 2013, Falahati-Hosseinabad et al. 2013, Daghighi et al. 2013). Most of this information is associated with the northern and central parts of Iran, while the parts of West and East of Iran are poorly studied. Kermanshah Province is located in the west of Iran. It has a moderate and mountainous climate and the elevation average of about 1350 meters above sea level. It rains most in the winter and is moderately warm in summer. The annual rainfall is 500 mm. The average temperature in the hottest months is above 22°C. The records on Collembola from the Kermanshah Province started about 5 years ago with the first one genera included by Kahrarian et al. (2011) in "The first report of genus of Entomobryidae (Hexapoda: Collembola) from Iran". Shortly the primarily comprehensive study on Kermanshah springtails has been published by Kahrarian et al. (2012). They reported 6 families, 15 genera and 9 species which only 3 genera of them belonged to Poduromorpha. To that time, some researchers has been reported on different taxa of Poduromorpha (Gharamaninezhad et al. 2013, Kahrarian et al. 2013, Kahrarian et al. 2014, Smolis et al. 2016) which among them, 4 species were new to science. Some data on the Poduromorpha fauna of Kermanshah is also contained in taxonomic and faunistic descriptions such as (Shayanmehr et al. 2013, Yoosefi- Lafooraki & Shayanmehr 2014) but until now, the faunistic data on Poduromorpha from the West part of Iran have not been summarised in the form of a comprehensive checklist. In this study, a checklist of the Poduromorpha fauna of Kermanshah based on the published data was compiled.
