Abstract
Four new species of the subfamily Neanurinae, namely Cryptonura dohezarensis sp. nov., Cryptonura abmalensis sp. nov., Cryptonura sariensis sp. nov. and Neanura persica sp. nov. from different forests in the Northern Iranian province of Mazandaran are described and illustrated. C. dohezarensis sp. nov. is characterized by body without pigment, dorsal tubercles rounded, mandible with 3 teeth, tubercles Cl and Af on head separate, tubercles Di on Th II–III with 3 chaetae and tubercle L on Abd III with 3 chaetae; C. abmalensis sp. nov.—by body with bluish pigment, dorsal tubercles triangular, mandible with 4 teeth, tubercles Cl and Af on head fused, chaetae A on head absent, tubercles L on Abd II and III with 4 chaetae and tubercle De+Dl+L on Abd V with 5 ordinary chaetae; C. sariensis sp. nov.—by body with bluish pigment, dorsal tubercles rounded, mandible with 5 teeth, tubercles Cl and Af on head separate and a reduced dorsal chaetotaxy; N. persica sp. nov. belongs to the group of Neanura with ventral chaetae L’ on Abd V, without chaetae Ocp on the head and tubercles Di on Th I absent, and is characterized by one character unknown in other members of the genus, e.g., the fusion of cephalic tubercles Cl and Af. In addition four other taxa have been found in the same forests: Cryptonura persica Smolis et al., 2012 and three species that may represent new species but there is insufficient material available to prepare full descriptions (one species in the genus Cryptonura, one in Vitronura and one in Endonura). An identification key of the genus and species of Neanurinae recorded so far from Iran is given.
References
Bellinger, P.F., Christiansen, K.A. & Janssens, F. (2021) Checklist of the Collembola of the World. Available from: http://www.collembola.org (accessed 30 April 2021)
Börner, C. (1901) Über ein neues Achorutidengenus Willemia, sowie 4 weitere neue Collembolenformen derselben Familie. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 24 (648), 422–433.
Caroli, E. (1912) Contribuzioni alla conoscenza dei Collemboli italiani. I: La tribù degli Achorutini C.B. Archivio Zoologico Italiano, 6 (6), 349–374.
Cassagnau, P. (1979) Les Collemboles Neanuridae des Pays Dinaro-Balkaniques: leur interêt phylogénétique et biogéographique. Biologia Gallo–Hellenica, 8, 185–203.
Cassagnau, P. & Delamare Deboutteville, C. (1955) Mission Henri Coiffait (1951). 3. Collemboles. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Génerale, 91, 365–395.
Cassagnau P. & Péja, N. (1979) Diagnoses préliminaries de quelques Neanuridae de Grèce et d’Albanie. Biologia Gallo-Hellenica, 8, 205–222.
Deharveng, L. (1979) Contribution a la connaissance des Collemboles neanurinae de France et de la Peninsule Iberique. Travaux de Laboratoire d’Écobiologie des Arthropodes Édaphiques, Toulouse, 1 (4), 1–61.
Deharveng, L. (1983) Morphologie évolutive des Collemboles Neanurinae en particulier de la lignée Neanurinae. Travaux de Laboratoire d’Écobiologie des Arthropodes Édaphiques, Toulouse, 4 (2), 1–63.
Deharveng, L. & Weiner, W.M. (1984) Collemboles de Corée du Nord III – Morulinae et Neanurinae. Travaux de Laboratoire d’Écobiologie des Arthropodes Édaphiques, Toulouse, 4 (4), 1–61.
D’Haese, C. (2003) Homology and morphology in Poduromorpha (Hexapoda, Collembola). European Journal of Entomology, 101 (3), 385–407. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2003.060
Ellis, W.N. (1976) Autumn fauna of Collembola from Central Crete. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 119 (8), 221–326.
Gisin, H. (1954) Description de cinq espèces inédites de Collemboles. Bulletin de la Société entomologique Suisse, 27 (1), 49–52.
Gisin, H. (1964) Collemboles d’Europe. VI. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 71 (20), 383–400. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.75615
Kos, F. (1940) Terricole Collembolen aus Slovenien. Glasnik, Bulletin de la Société Scientifique de Skoplje, 22, 136–168.
MacGillivray, A.D. (1893) North American Thysanura—IV. Canadian Entomologist, 25, 313–318. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent25313-12
Mayvan, M.M., Shayanmehr, M., Smolis, A. & Skarżyński, D. (2015) Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa, 3918 (4), 552–558. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
Shayanmehr, M., Yoosefi Lafooraki, E. & Kahrarian, M. (2020) A new updated checklist of Iranian Collembola (Arthropoda: Hexapoda). Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 39 (4), 403–445.
Smolis, A. (2002) A new species of the genus Cryptonura Cassagnau, 1979 from Poland (Collembola: Neanuridae). Genus, 13 (3), 325–330.
Smolis, A. (2008) Redescription of four Polish Endonura Cassagnau, 1979 (Collembola, Neanuridae, Neanurinae), with a nomenclature of the ventral chaetae of antennae. Zootaxa, 1858 (1), 9–36. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1858.1.2
Smolis, A. & Deharveng, L. (2006) Vitronura mascula, a new species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from northern Vietnam, with a key to the species of the genus. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 113 (2), 263–268. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.80349
Smolis, A., Falahati, A. & Skarżyński, D. (2012) The genus Cryptonura Cassagnau, 1979 (Collembola: Neanuridae: Neanurinae) in Iran. Zootaxa, 3530 (1), 51–58. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3530.1.5
Smolis, A., Kahrarian, M., Piwnik, A. & Skarżyński, D. (2016) Endonura Cassagnau in Iran, with a key to species of the genus (Collembola, Neanuridae, Neanurinae). ZooKeys, 553, 53–71. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.553.6009
Smolis, A., Shayanmehr, M., Kuznetsova, N. & Yoosefi Lafooraki, E. (2017) Three new remarkable species of the genus Endonura Cassagnau, 1979 from the Middle East and Central Asia (Collembola, Neanuridae, Neanurinae, Neanurini). ZooKeys, 673, 135–151. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.673.12084
Smolis, A., Shayanmehr, M. & Yoosefi Lafooraki, E. (2018) New members of the genera Neanura MacGillivray, 1893 and Deutonura Cassagnau, 1979 (Collembola: Neanuridae) from the Middle East. European Journal of Taxonomy, 406, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.406
Smolis, A. & Skarżyński, D. (2020) Contribution to the knowledge of Neanurinae of north-western Iran with description of seven new species (Collembola, Neanuridae). ZooKeys, 992, 105–138. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.992.56921
Smolis, A., Skarżyński, D., Pomorski, R.J. & Kaprus’, I.J. (2007) Redescription of Endonura taurica (Stach, 1951) and E. quadriseta Cassagnau & Péja, 1979, and description of two new species of the genus Endonura Cassagnau, 1979 (Collembola: Neanuridae: Neanurinae) from the Crimea (Ukraine). Zootaxa, 1442 (1), 19–35. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1442.1.2
Stach, J. (1951) The Apterygotan Fauna of Poland un relation to the World-Fauna of this group of Insects. Family: Bilobidae. Acta Monographica Musei Historiae Naturalis, Krakow, 4, 1–97.
Templeton, R. (1835) Thysanura Hiberbnicae, or descriptions of such species of spring-tailed insects (Podura and Lepisma, Lin.) as have been observed in Ireland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1 (2), 89–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1838.tb00147.x
Yosii, R. (1969) Collembola-Arthropleona of the IBP-Station in the Shiga Heights, Central Japan, I. Bulletin of the National Science Museum Tokyo, 12 (3), 531–556.