new faunistic records for 15 species of salticidae for the spider fauna of iran are presented. five species (langona aperta, mogrus antonius, pellenes bonus, p. geniculatus and sitticus karakumensis) are new records for the spider fauna of iran.

in survey on the abundance and species diversity of arthropods associated with organic and conventional wheat fields which carried out in 2010 and 2011 in mashhad region, a total of 13 species belonging to carabidae family were collected and identified. among the identified species, calosoma auropunctatum dsungaricum gebler (carabinae) and the subspecies poecilus cupreus erythropus dejean (pter...

background : biting midges of the genus culicoides act as vectors for important diseases affecting humans and both wild and domestic animals. collection of adult culicoides specimens in the near vicinity of vertebrate hosts is the major part of any bluetongue surveillance plan. there are old records of culicoides species dated from 1963, 1968 and 1975. therefore, it was decided to collect diffe...

in the course of this study, the number of recorded chalcidids (hym.: chalcididae) from iranincreased to 42 species (including one unidentified species of the genus lasiochalcidia masi), of whichfifteen species and four genera are new to iranian chalcidid fauna. the family chalcididae is repredentedby three subfamilies in iran as follows: chalcidinae (16 species), dirhininae (two species), andh...

sixteen isolates of colletotrichum were collected from leaves with anthracnose symptoms or leaf spots of twelve wild, cultivated and ornamental plant species from the guilan, mazandaran, and golestan provinces in northern iran. five different species, including c. aenigma, c. gigasporum, c. godetiae, c. karstii, and c. musae were identified based on the dna sequence data (tub2, gs, gapdh). four...

during ornithological expedition to four provinces in the northeast and north of iran in june 2009, a total of 117 bird species belonging to 14 orders and 40 families were recorded. based on these records, eight bird species were found outside their presumed breeding range according to the available distribution maps covering iran, suggesting that updating of the distribution maps should be pro...

torymidae is one of the largest families of parasitoid waps. during this study which is conducted during 2010-2012, 14 species of the family torymidae (hym.: chalcidoidea) were collected from kurdistan province, of which, one genus and six species were new records for iranian fauna. the genus torymoides walker is new record for iranian torymid fauna. new records were listed. microdontomerus alb...