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{"title":"On the short-horned grasshopper (Orthoptera: Caelifera) fauna of northeastern Iran with some information on sweep sampling capture rates","authors":"A. Jabbari, M. M. Awal, L. Fekrat, Javad Karimi, M. Rashki","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V11I1.42026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V11I1.42026","url":null,"abstract":"In order to improve the knowledge of the Caelifera species of north eastern Iran, faunistic investigations on grasshoppers of this region were carried out during 2013-2014. Collected specimens as well as deposited specimens in Insect Museum of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were examined, in detail. Totally 19 species belonging to 17 genera, 9 subfamilies and 3 families were collected and determined. Among them Paranocarodes straubei is newly recorded for the fauna of Iran. In addition to faunistic records, differences in species diversity and captured numbers upon time of day were investigated via sweep sampling at two rangeland sites during 2013-2014. There were no significant differences among capture rates in various day hours; so standardized grasshopper sampling could be done between the hours of 8:00 and 16:00 to generate consistent estimates of rangeland grasshopper densities.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81653496","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":"Hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Khaf, South-east Khorasan-e Razavi Province, Iran","authors":"Elahe Hesari, Sharokh Pashaei Rad, Morteza Seifalah Zade Zooeram","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V12I2.41101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V12I2.41101","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose: A survey was conducted to identify the hover flies in South-east Khorasan-e Razavi Province, Iran during 2011-2012. Basic methodology: These species were collected by sweeping net on flowers as pollinators. Main findings: Among of 231 collected specimens, 17 species belonging to 10 genera and two subfamilies were verified. All of them are recorded for the first time from khaf region. Eumerus ornatus (Meigen, 1822) is a new record for the fauna of Khorasan-e Razavi Province.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72847170","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":"Checklist and distribution of lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Iran","authors":"Rahim Abdolahi Mesbah, J. Nozari, H. Allahyari, M. Z. Khormizi","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V12I1.40513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V12I1.40513","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an attempt to fill all of previous literature of coccinellidae records and species distribution in different provinces of Iran. Distribution was extracted for each species from literatures. There are 6 subfamilies, 16 Tribes, 32 genus and 117 species in Iran. The largest subfamily, tribe and genus in Iran were Scymninae, Scymnini and Scymnus, respectively. The most distribution was for species Hippodamia variegate (Goeze), Coccinella septempunctata L., Oenopia conglobata L., Chilocorus bipustulatus L. and Adalia bipunctata L.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86204076","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 report of two parasitic copepods of Pampus argenteus (Stromateidae) in west of Persian Gulf, Iran","authors":"M. Khosheghbal, J. Pazooki","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V11I1.37496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V11I1.37496","url":null,"abstract":"A survey on parasitic copepods was carried out on Pampus argenteus Euphrasen, 1788 in Hormozgan province. Totally, 62 specimens were caught by bottom trawl from northwest of Qeshm Island in summer 2010 and winter 2011. These were immediately frozen in on-board deep freezer of fishing vessel. All samples were transferred to laboratory and after measuring fish weight and length, parasitological survey implemented by stereo-and light microscopes on body surface and gill cavities of the host. Individuals belong to two species of parasitic copepods were removed from the inner surface of the operculum and gill filaments of the host. The collected parasites were Nothobomolochus triceros (Basset- Smith, 1898) and Paralebion aliuncus (Rangnekar, 1955). The prevalence, mean intensity and abundance of parasites were as follows: N. triceros (6.45%, 0.8 ± 0.71 and 0.06) and P. aliuncus (1.61%, 0.2 ± 0.17 and 0.01), respectively. Both species of copepod parasites are reported, for the first time, from Iran.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91453914","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":"Additional records for Ophiomorus brevipes (Blanford, 1874) and O. tridactylus (Blyth, 1853) (Sauria: Scincidae) from Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Southeastern Iran","authors":"E. Damadi, A. Gholamifard, N. Rastegar-Pouyani","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V11I2.42372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V11I2.42372","url":null,"abstract":"The burrowing skinks of the genus Ophiomorus Duméril and Bibron, 1839 with eleven described species distributed from Greece through southwest Asia to northwestern India (Anderson and Leviton, 1966; Nilson and Andrén, 1978; Anderson, 1999; Kazemi et al., 2011). The main diagnostic exo-morphological characteristics of these lovely lizards are described as follows: body elongate; limbs greatly reduced or absent; eye small, lower eyelid with an undivided, transparent disc; ear opening absent or hidden; “nostril between an upper and lower nasal scale, both of uncertain homology; prefrontal scales separated; frontal scale hour-glass shaped due to constriction of frontal by first supraocular (except in O. latastii); frontoparietal and parietal distinct; postmentals two; dorsal and lateral body scales with one or sometimes two (in tandem) minute pits in central posterior part of scale” (Boulenger, 1887; Anderson and Leviton, 1966; Anderson, 1999; Greer and Wilson, 2001). Iran hosts seven species of the genus including the Iranian endemic species namely Ophiomorus maranjabensis Kazemi, Farhadi Qomi, Kami and Anderson, 2011; O. nuchalis Nilson and Andrén, 1978; O. persicus (Steindachner, 1867); O. streeti Anderson and Leviton, 1966; and native species including O. blanfordii (Boulenger, 1887) from Pakistan and Iran; O. brevipes (Blanford, 1874) from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan; and O. tridactylus (Blyth, 1853) from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan (Leviton, 1959; Anderson and Leviton, 1966; Anderson, 1999; Khan, 2004; Gholamifard, 2011; Kazemi et al., 2011). Šmíd et al. (2014) recorded eight species of Ophiomorus for Iran, but listed seven species of the genus (the above mentioned species). Based on Ananjeva et al. (2006) perhaps the eighth member of the genus Ophiomorus for the herpetofauna of Iran is O. chernovi Anderson and Leviton, 1966, as they included it for northeast of Iran (“on the left bank of Tejen River” of Iran), whereas the holotype of this rare species is from “Pul-i-Khatun, at confluence of Geshef-Rud and Hari-Rud” in Turkmen, near the Iranian and Afghan borders (Anderson and Leviton, 1966). However O. chernovi not listed among the Iranian lizards by Anderson (1999), Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2008), Kamali (2013), and Šmíd et al. (2014). Archive of SID","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84821678","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":"Two new records of Ghost shrimps (Crustacea:Decaoda:Axiidea) from Bushehr, Persian Gulf, Iran","authors":"Vahid Sepahvand","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V10I1.35609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V10I1.35609","url":null,"abstract":"There are two species of Ghost shrimps namely, Neocallichirus jousseaumei, N. calmani of which the latter is the first record for the Persian Gulf (littoral and subtidal zones). While, N. jousseaumei is first record for littoral zones along coastal waters of the Persian Gulf. The material of present study was collected from Ouli village along the coast of Bushehr Province. Here, Notes on habitat preferences, symbiotic animals and some morphological characters used for identification of two species is presented .","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73544004","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":"The Female Reproductive Cycle of the Spotted Toad-headed Agama, Phrynocephalus maculatus (Sauria: Agamidae) in Iran","authors":"Mahsa Malekmohammadi Kalahroudi, V. Hojati","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.42592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.42592","url":null,"abstract":"The Spotted Toad-headed Agama, Phrynocephalus maculatus, is a member of the Agamidae family distributed in the central and south-eastern deserts of Iran. Iranian specimens are rare in collections. In this research, the female reproductive cycle of this species was studied from April 5 to August 5, 2013. Totally, 15 adult females were collected by hand at midday from southern parts of Damghan County, located in Semnan Province of Iran. Ovaries were removed and processed for histological and morphometric studies. The oogenic cycle begins from early April, mating occurs at the beginning of May, with oviposition occurring from late May to mid July. Females lay 2-3 eggs per clutch with the possibility of producing a secondary clutch later in the season. Maximum reproductive activity occurs in May and early June and reduces from early July and ends in August. There was no significant difference between the right and left side of the reproductive system. Hence, oogenesis occurs from April through July, Ph. maculatus follows an associated reproductive cycle typical for temperate species.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88547189","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":"Faunistic study of Thysanoptera (Insecta) in Khorasan-e- Razavi Province, north-east Iran","authors":"L. Fekrat, S. Manzari","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.39282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.39282","url":null,"abstract":"The Thysanoptera fauna of Iran are still very incompletely known. As a result of the study of thrips fauna in different localities of Khorasan-e-Razavi province during 2012-2014, a total of 46 species in 20 genera and 3 families are recorded for this area. Among them, 43 species are newly recorded for the fauna of this province; and Pezothrips dianti is newly recorded for the fauna of Iran. Distribution in Iran, in the world and some taxonomic notes are given for some species.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86695297","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":"A survey on the fauna of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) associating with alfalfa fields of Khorasan Razavi province","authors":"H. Barahoei, E. Rakhshani, Khalil Fathabadi, H. Moradpour","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.37647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.37647","url":null,"abstract":"In order to study the fauna of ichneumonid wasps (Hym., Ichneumonidae), a survey was carried out during 2010-2013 in various localities in Khorasan Razavi province. Samples were collected using sweeping net by irregular patterns on the common field crops and in the orchards. 234 specimens, in total were collected and identified. They were consisting 26 species belong 25 genera of 12 subfamilies. Among them, 16 species are new for Khorasan fauna including Anomalon cruentatum (Geoffroy, 1785) and Barylypa propugnator (Geoffroy, 1785) (Anomaloninae); Exetastes syriacus Schmiedeknecht, 1910 and Lissonota pleuralis (Brischke, 1880) (Banchinae); Diadegma semiclausum (Hellen, 1949) and Sinophorus xanthostomus (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Campopleginae); Dichrogaster longicaudata (Thomson, 1884), Dichrogaster saharator (Aubert, 1964) and Trychosis legator (Thunberg, 1822) (Cryptinae); Enizemum ornatum (Gravenhorst, 1829), Homotropus signatus (Gravenhorst, 1829) and Promethes sulcator (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Diplazontinae); Diadromus collaris (Gravenhorst, 1829), Dicaelotus pumilus (Gravenhorst, 1829) and Ichneumon proletarius Wesmael, 1848 (Ichneumoninae); Orthocentrus strigatus Holmgren, 1858 (Orthocentrinae). Three species including Exetastes syriacus, Lissonota pleuralis and Dicaelotus pumilus are new records for the fauna of Iran.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79003982","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":"A survey on Entomobryomorpha (Collembola, Hexapoda) fauna in Northern Iran with an identification key","authors":"E. Y. Lafooraki, M. Shayanmehr","doi":"10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.34344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22067/IJAB.V10I2.34344","url":null,"abstract":"A total of 23 species and 19 genera were identified. The genus Coecobrya Yosii 1956 (Entomobryidae) is recorded for the first time from Iran. Family Paronellidae and three species Cyphoderus albinus Nicolet 1842 (Paronellidae), Sinella curviseta Brook 1882 and Entomobrya lindbergi Stach 1960 (Entomobryidae) are reported for the first time from Mazandaran province. Also an identification key for families and genera which have found until now from this province, is presented.","PeriodicalId":14532,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73755289","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}