a faunistic study of the order thysanoptera was conducted in cereal crop fields of the southwestern iranian province of khuzestan during 2007-2009. the species florithrips traegardhi (trybom) was collected from various grasses including corn, rice and wheat and later found its genus and species are new records for iran.

during 2004-2005, a faunistic study was carried out on the edaphic mites in sorche-hesar forest park of tehran. a total of 14 species belonging to 10 families were collected and identified, of which four species, viz. iphidozercon corticalis evans, dendrolealaps populi walker, holaspina alstoni evans and rhodacarellus silesiacus willmann, are new records for iran.

New faunistic data are provided on the ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) of Iraq. Three genera ( Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922; Minosiella Dalmas, 1921; Odontodrassus Jézéquel, 1965) and six species dalmatensis (L. Koch, 1866); intermedia Denis, 1958; aravaensis Levy, 1999; mundulus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872); Pterotricha dalmasi Fage, 1929; Zelotes fagei 1955) reported in Iraq for first ...

Three new species of Patrus Aubé, 1838 are described from China: hainanensis sp. nov. Hainan; jiangxiensis Jiangxi; shangchuanensis Guangdong. Eight / subspecies Gyrinidae recorded China for the first time: Metagyrinus vitalisi (Peschet, 1923), Orectochilus argenteolimbatus Peschet, 1923, murinus Régimbart, 1892, haemorrhous (Régimbart, 1892), marginepennis angustilimbus (Ochs, 1925) Yunnan; co...

In the present study, a catalogue of the Iranian Alysiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is given. It is based on a detailed study of all available published data. In total 78 species from 15 genera including Alloea Haliday, 1833 (1 species), Angelovia Zaykov, 1980 (1 species), Aphaereta Foerster, 1862 (2 species), Aspilota Foerster, 1862 (2 species), Chorebus Haliday, 1833 (42 species), Coelinidea...

The focus of this study was to understand the faunistic composition, ecological properties and zoogeographical composition of Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Central Anatolian region. 72 species belonging to seven subfamilies and 25 genera were identified. The major part of the Elateridae fauna of the Central Anatolian region is formed by the subfamilies Elaterinae and Cardiophorinae. The genus ...