Sabura Mirzamohamadi, M. Hosseini, H. S. Namaghi, Javad Karimi, M. Mehrparvar
{"title":"Symbiotic ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) associated with aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Golestan province, Iran","authors":"Sabura Mirzamohamadi, M. Hosseini, H. S. Namaghi, Javad Karimi, M. Mehrparvar","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V11I2.47933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V11I2.47933","url":null,"abstract":"Mutualistic interaction between aphids and ants is one of the classical examples of mutualism. The current study was carried out during 2013-2014 in Golestan province, North-eastern Iran, to investigate the myrmecophilous aphids and their relationships with ants. In this study, 11 ant species representing seven genera and two subfamilies associated with 12 aphid species belonging to two subfamilies were collected on different host plants. Among aphid species, Aphis gossypii Glover 1877 and A. craccivora Koch 1854 were observed frequently associated with ants, while among ant species, Crematogaster subdentata Mayr 1877 and Plagiolepis taurica Santschi 1920 had more frequent interactions with aphids. Moreover, except Formica persica, all ant species were reported for the first time from Golestan province. More detailed studies are needed to investigate aphid–ant mutualistic relationships in Iran to understand their complicated relationships in nature.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87940036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First record of the genus Sericothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Iran","authors":"M. Poorkashkooli, M. Safaralizadeh, K. Minaei","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V11I2.48947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V11I2.48947","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Sericothrips Haliday is reported for the first time from Iran, based on the materials collected on Lotus sp. and identified as S. bicornis (Karny). The illustrations are provided for the new record. This is the third genus of subfamily Sericothripinae in Iran. The number of Thysanoptera genera in accordance with recent changes in Iran as well as host association of Iranian Sericothripinae are discussed.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87074787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fauna Iranica: I. Annotated checklist of the spiders of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae)","authors":"O. Mirshamsi, Y. Marusik, A. Zamani, Roya Kashefi","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.VFAUNA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.VFAUNA","url":null,"abstract":"In this checklist 528 spider species and subspecies belonging to 45 families and 230 genera that have been recorded from Iran are presented, of which, 43 records are considered as doubtful. Geographic distributions of all species are presented by main provincial areas of the country. Also, where necessary, we have provided comments on species distribution, species status or possible misidentifications. The list is dominated by members of the families Salticidae (98 species), Linyphiidae (69 species) and Lycosidae (63 species) with 18.7%, 13.1% and 12% of total species, respectively. The level of regional endemism and sub-endemism exceeds 15.5% and 5.6% of total species, respectively.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89660535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seyed Mahdi Kazemi, E. Rastegar-pouyani, Seyyed Ahmad Shafiei Darabi, Masoud Ebrahim Tehrani, M. Hosseinzadeh, Meysam Mashayekhi, A. Mobaraki
{"title":"Annotated checklist of amphibians and reptiles of Qom Province, central Iran","authors":"Seyed Mahdi Kazemi, E. Rastegar-pouyani, Seyyed Ahmad Shafiei Darabi, Masoud Ebrahim Tehrani, M. Hosseinzadeh, Meysam Mashayekhi, A. Mobaraki","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V11I1.37543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V11I1.37543","url":null,"abstract":"The updated checklist of amphibians and reptiles of Qom Province, Central Iran is presented. Totally 46 species, 35 genera and 17 families of reptiles and amphibians are reported in the area. The most diverse suborder is serpentes with 19 species or 41.3% of the reptile species richness of the region. The most specious families with high diversification are ranked respectively: Colubridae with 11 species (23.91%), Agamidae (seven species, 15.21%), Lacertidae and Gekkonidae (each of which with five species, 10.86%), Scincidae (four species, 8.69%), Natricidae and Viperidae (each of which with two species, 4.3%), Bufonidae, Ranidae, Geoemydidae, Testudinidae, Anguidae, Varanidae, Typhlopidae, Erycidae, Lamprophiidae and Psammophiidae with a single species of each.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91227034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farahnaz - Molavi, J. Darvish, F. Haddad, M. Matin
{"title":"A New Cytotype of the Iranian House Mouse, Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 (Rodentia: Muridae), in Birjand Region, Eastern Iran: Implications for the Evolution of Sex-Autosome Translocations","authors":"Farahnaz - Molavi, J. Darvish, F. Haddad, M. Matin","doi":"10.22067/ijab.v12i1.48278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/ijab.v12i1.48278","url":null,"abstract":"The highly conserved morphology and chromosomal structures of house mouse, Mus musculus, provides a good model for chromosomal studies. Sex-autosome translocations is one of the rarest chromosomal rearrangements among mammals and therefore sex-autosome translocations has been offered as accurate taxonomic markers to identify species with similar morphological traits. In this study, we described the outcome of a comprehensive cytogenetic survey of the house mouse, Mus musculus, in the eastern Iran using G banding method. Interestingly, results showed the presence of a new cytotype of X-autosome translocation of house mouse which was found in 18 specimens of Birjand region in the eastern Iran. Larger size of choromosomal translocation was observed in Chromosome X. We used karyotype asymmetry method as a powerful statistical parameter to extract coefficient of variation of chromosome length. Based on the data of this study, the results, Birjand population did not show asymmetry in all Asymmetry indexes (AI, DI, As%, A, A2, A1 and Syi%), and this result confirmed translocations in Birjands' chromosomes as well.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90584636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification snails of orchards and farms in west Azarbaijan province, Iran","authors":"E. Ahmadi","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.38411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.38411","url":null,"abstract":"During 2012-2013 in a funistic survey of Snails, several species of snails were collected and identified; both from orchards, farms and the weeds. In total, 18 species belonging to 17 genera out of 10 families are identified based on morphometric characteristics including (shape and size of operculum, aperture, dextral or sinistral of shell, pneumostome, keel, radula, renal ridge and reproduction system). As a result, Vitrea contortula, Vallonia tenuilabris and Orculella sirianocoriensis identified as new record for Iranian mollusc fauna. Besides, the most damaging species within the yielded list identified as Helicella krynickii that has much importance within the north west of region.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84984292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First record of Odonata nymphs from Karun River, south-west Iran","authors":"M. Esfandiari, S. Sadeghi, A. Khadempour","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.36694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.36694","url":null,"abstract":"Odonata fauna is poorly known in Iran and most of the previous studies deal with northern parts of the country, studying adult specimens. We sampled Karun River for aquatic insects in the city of Ahvaz in south-west of Iran during 2009–2011. As a result, 40 nymphs of one damselfly species and four dragonfly species of the order Odonata comprising five genera from four families were recorded. All of the species is newly reported from Khuzestan province. Species list with their distribution data in Iran and the material examined are presented.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80501503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hosseinzadeh, M. Aliabadian, E. Rastegar-pouyani, N. Rastegar-Pouyani
{"title":"Morphometric Study of Hemidactylus Geckos (Squamata:Gekkonidae) in Iran","authors":"M. Hosseinzadeh, M. Aliabadian, E. Rastegar-pouyani, N. Rastegar-Pouyani","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.42237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.42237","url":null,"abstract":"So far, four species of Hemidactylus have been reported in Iran as follows: H. persicus, H. robustus, H. flaviviridis, H. romeshkanicus. In this study, 108 specimens belonging to these four species of Hemidactylus were examined morphologically, using 19 metric and 6 meristic characters. Multivariate analyses showed morphological differences among these three species with exception H. romeshkanicus which was found to be indistinguishable from the specimens of H. persicus, especially in the DFA analysis. In spite of, grouping the holotype of H. romeshkanicus with population of H. persicus especially in DFA analyses and presences of high intraspecific variation among populations of H. persicus complex, we could not definitely decide about the taxonomic status of H. romeshkanicus with only one specimen. But we suggest that latter species probably belongs to a local populations inside H. persicus complex.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85442503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. R. Pouyani, A. Fattahi, R. Karamiani, M. Takesh
{"title":"Sexual Size Dimorphism in Hyla savignyi Audouin, 1827 (Anura: Hylidae) from Kermanshah Province, Western Iran","authors":"N. R. Pouyani, A. Fattahi, R. Karamiani, M. Takesh","doi":"10.22067/ijab.v11i1.36384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/ijab.v11i1.36384","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated sexual size dimorphism in the tree frog, Hyla savignyi using 33 males and 22 females from the western and northwestern regions of Kermanshah Province, western Iran. Out of sixteen measured morphometric characters, four were significantly larger in females than in males. These characters were nostrileye length, brachium length, elbowlongest finger length and hind limb length.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76787929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Hosseini-Chegeni, R. Hosseini, M. Abdigoudarzi, Z. Telmadarraiy, M. Tavakoli
{"title":"An additional records of Hyalomma marginatum rufipes Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) in southwestern and southern Iran with a molecular evidence","authors":"A. Hosseini-Chegeni, R. Hosseini, M. Abdigoudarzi, Z. Telmadarraiy, M. Tavakoli","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V11I1.47980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V11I1.47980","url":null,"abstract":"Hyalomma marginatum rufipes (Acari: Ixodidae) along with three closely related subspecies is considered as marginatum group. The subspecies had proven as main vector of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, the cause of human death in Asia, Africa and Europe. This tick is also a vector of parasitic protozoan Theileria annulata, agent of tropical theileriosis in cattle. Nonetheless, taxonomical status of this tick not recognized or confirmed in tick’s fauna of Iran, then we decided to show most taxonomic characteristics and confirm the presence of this subspecies in Iran by molecular methods. Tick specimens were collected from cattle in Manujan township, Kerman province, southern Iran. Specimens were identified morphologically using suitable taxonomical identification keys. The morphologically identified specimens were subjected to molecular studies. Morphological and COI gene analysis clearly confirmed the occurrence of H. m. rufipes in Iran, however, according to ITS2 fragment H. m. rufipes can be the same H. m. marginatum. Thus, it seems that based on most popular molecular markers, H. m. rufipes and its relative H. m. marginatum really should be assigned as a polymorphic species H. marginatum.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89365784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}