Arthropod diversity in Iran: Subphylum Hexapoda Latreille, 1825, Basal Hexapod Taxa | ||
| Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics | ||
| Volume 11, Issue 4, Autumn 2025, Pages 1085-1114 PDF (19.05 M) | ||
| Document Type: Review Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.48311/jibs.11.4.1085 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Masoumeh Shayanmehr* 1; Mahmood Mehrafrooz Mayvan2; Elham Yoosefi Lafooraki3; Morteza Kahrarian4; Eliyeh Yahyapour5; Elaheh Daghighi6; Rafael Jordana7; Javier Arbea8; Mikhail Potapov9; Cyrille D’Haese10; Thomas Tully11; Dariusz Skarżyński12; Adrian Smolis12; Loris Galli13; Alberto Sendra14; Nikolas Gioia Cipola15; Rafael Molero16; Ľubomír Kováč2 | ||
| 1Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Mazandaran, Iran | ||
| 2Department of Zoology, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Šrobárova 2, 041 54 Košice, Slovakia | ||
| 3Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran | ||
| 4Department of Agronomy, Ker. C., Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, IRAN. | ||
| 5Islamic Azad University, Arak branch, Agricultural Faculty, Entomology Department, P.O. Box 38135/567, Arak, Iran. | ||
| 6betterSoil e. V., Lise-Meitner-Straße 9, D-89081, Ulm, Germany | ||
| 7Department of Environmental Biology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain | ||
| 8Ria de Solía, 3, ch. 39, 39610 El Astillero, Cantabria, Spain | ||
| 9Department of Zoology and Ecology, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Kibalchich str., 6, korp. 5, Moscow 129164, Russia | ||
| 10MECADEV, UMR 7179 CNRS MNHN, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France | ||
| 11Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences - Paris, IEES UMR7618, Sorbonne Université, UPEC, CNRS, IRD, INRA, 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France | ||
| 12University of Wrocław, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Invertebrate Biology, Evolution and Conservation, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51 148 Wrocław, Poland | ||
| 13Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Genoa University, Genoa, Italy | ||
| 14Grupo de Investigación de Biología del Suelo y de los Ecosistemas Subterráneos, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Facultad de Biología, Ciencias Ambientales y Química, Universidad de Alcalá, E–28871 – Alcalá de Henares, | ||
| 15Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia – DBEZ, Centro de Biociências – CB, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). BR 101, Lagoa Nova, Campus Universitário, 59078-900, Natal, RN, Brazil | ||
| 16Departamento de Zoología, C-1 Campus de Rabanales, University of Córdoba, 14071 – Córdoba, Spain | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A comprehensive review of the literature and database records on the five lineages of basal hexapods of Iran was conducted to summarise current knowledge of their diversity and distribution within the country. A total of 379 species are currently known from Iran, belonging to 140 genera and 27 families. Collembola are the most diverse (345 species, 119 genera, 20 families), followed by Zygentoma (21 species, 10 genera, 3 families) and Archaeognatha (6 species, 5 genera, 1 family), whereas Protura (5 species, 4 genera, 2 families) and Diplura (2 species, 1 genus, 1 family) remain clearly under-sampled. Collembola have been recorded from many regions of Iran, especially the north, whereas for the other groups few or no species are known from most provinces. Most species for which Iranian habitat data are available occur only in forest environments, particularly the Hyrcanian forests. Fifty-one Collembola species (≈14.8%) and 15 non-Collembola taxa (e.g., Protura, Archaeognatha and Zygentoma) are known only from Iran and are likely endemic, indicating that the country is a regional diversity hotspot in Western Asia. Studies on basal taxa, especially Collembola, have increased the number of recorded species from 70 to 345 over the past 43 years. Nevertheless, additional research in specific environments, particularly in eastern, central, western, and southern Iran, is still needed. This quantitative overview reveals clear geographic and taxonomic gaps that future surveys must address to refine biodiversity and conservation priorities nationwide. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Apterygota; Archaeognatha; Collembola; Diplura; Entognatha; Protura; Zygentoma | ||
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