Metaphorura riozoi Castaño-Meneses, Palacios-Vargas & Traser, 2000

Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Mirab-Balou, Majid & Kaprus, Igor, 2017, New additions to Iranian Collembola (Entognatha: Hexapoda) from Ilam Province (western Iran), Turkish Journal of Zoology 41 (4), pp. 744-748 : 744-745

Metaphorura riozoi Castaño-Meneses, Palacios-Vargas & Traser, 2000 (Family Tullbergiidae ) ( Figure 1 )

Material studied. IRAN, 9 specimens, Ilam Province: soil and leaf litter under cypress trees ( Cupressus spp. ) ,

SHAYANMEHR et al. / Turk J Zool

Ilam University (33°45′6.806″N, 46°22′49.648″E, alt. 1395 m) , Ilam, September 2015; soil and leaf litter under oak trees ( Quercus brantii ), Gachan Mountain (33°38′43.08″N, 46°29′9.96″E, alt. 2330 m) , Ilam, July 2014, leg. M. Mirab-Balou .

Ecology: The species was recorded for the first time from the soil of a meadow in Hungary ( Castano-Meneses et al., 2000), and no information about its ecology is available.

Distribution: Central Europe, Hungary ( Castano-Meneses et al., 2000; Dunger and Schlitt, 2011).

Figures

Figure 1. Metaphorura riozoi (a): Adult; (b): Macroseta on dorsal and lateral body; (c): Postantennal organ (PAO) and sensilla on antennae 3 and 4.