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Megalothorax incertus

Megalothorax incertus

Borner, 1903

GBIF:209582369

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Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil and litter under trees such as black alder, oriental beech (Fagus orientalis), date-plum (Diospyrus lotus), Persian silk tree (Albizia julibrissin), oak and maple (Acer cappadocicum).
Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope, Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein (2023): An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran. Zootaxa 5275 (1): 1-101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1
MAZ: Yoosefi Lafooraki 2014; Yoosefi Lafooraki & Shayanmehr 2014 b; Shayanmehr & Yahyapour 2019; KS: Kahrarian 2015, 2019.
Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope, Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein (2023): An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran. Zootaxa 5275 (1): 1-101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1
General distribution: cosmopolitan (Papáč & Kováč 2013).
Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope, Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein (2023): An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran. Zootaxa 5275 (1): 1-101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1

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An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran

checklist

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope, Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein (2023): An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran. Zootaxa 5275 (1): 1-101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1

Abstract

Based on available literature sources, we have listed the genera and species of springtails (Collembola) of Iran located in Southwest Asia. In total, 301 named species of Collembola are listed in catalogue. This includes 286 described species in 109 genera from 20 families recorded from Iran. Of them, 15 species are also considered as dubious species. It also includes 15 genera whose species are still unknown. Information about biology, geographical distribution, ecology, authorship records for different provinces, and bibliographical data of Iranian Collembola are included.

Mayvan M M, Greenslade P, Sadeghi-Namaghi H, plazi (2023). An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/55fzt3 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 4/28/2023View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
209582369
Dataset Key
17701266-69e1-4995-993c-f3d1f9636cb7
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2122164
Taxon ID
721B6E0C8C27FF98FF3824D9A90520C1.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026