A revision of the genus Isotomurus (Collembola: Isotomidae) in northern Iran using molecular evidence
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LAFOORAKI, ELHAM YOOSEFI
Author
HAJIZADEH, JALIL
Author
SHAYANMEHR, MASOUMEH
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-01-19
5230
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48
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5230.1.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5230.1.3
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Isotomurus punctiferus
Yosii, 1963
Figs 9–10
Material examined.
Iran
,
Guilan province
, Rasht, campus of University of
Guilan
, soil of grassland,
15 specimens
,
37°11′44″N
49°03′25″E
,
2019.8.21
, leg.
E. Yoosefi Lafooraki.
Ecology and distribution.
It is native to Asia including
Japan
,
Pakistan
,
Iran
(
Golestan
and
Guilan
) (
Potapov 2001
;
Daghighi
et al
. 2013
;
Falahati
et al
. 2013
). No special data on its ecology was known. Iranian specimens were found in forest moss and soil and grassland soil.
FIGURE 9.
Isotomurus punctiferus
: body color pattern
Remarks.
Some characters that was not mentioned in the first description include: antennal III organ with two thick inner sensilla, two slender outer sensilla and two slender lateral sensilla (
Fig.10a
); Mac. long and ciliated. As the only Iranian species with crenulated dens and 3,3,1 Trich. on Abd. II, III and IV has the mucronal seta (
Fig. 10b
).