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Megalothorax perspicillum

Megalothorax perspicillum

Schneider & D'Haese, 2013

GBIF:209582370

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Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil and leaf litter under Persian ironwood, pine trees and dead timbers. General distribution: France, Algeria; the species might be widespread as it could have been confused with M. minimus (Bendjaballah et al. 2018) and Iran.
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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AnimaliaArthropodaCollembolaNeelipleonaNeelidaeMegalothoraxMegalothorax perspicillum

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An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran

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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
209582370
Dataset Key
17701266-69e1-4995-993c-f3d1f9636cb7
Origin
source
Backbone Key
10274579
Taxon ID
721B6E0C8C26FF99FF382184A8FB27A9.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026
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