In order to study the culicine mosquito fauna (Diptera: Culicidae: Culicinae) of the Shadegan wetland in southern Khouzestan Province of Iran, sampling was carried out using hand catch, total catch, and New Jersy light traps, from October 2008 to March 2009. A total of 2664 culicine mosquitoes were captured. Three genera and five species were identified, including Culex pipiens L., Cx. tritaeni...

Echinoids fauna are common and distributed in the Lower Miocene deposits of the Bagher Abad area, northeast Isfahan, Central Iran.There are six Echinoid taxa belonging to the Echinoidea Class that can be described as: Clypeaster intermedius, Prinocidaris sp. andspines related to: Eucidaris zaemays, Stylocidaris Polyacantha, Spatangoid sp. and Prinocidaris sp. Bivalves, Foraminifers,Bryozoans, B...

Although spiders constitute a highly diversified group of animals, the knowledge regarding their geographic distribution (i.e., so-called Wallacean shortfall) and diversity patterns is incipient on global scale; while attempts to explore such have been made for Neotropical fauna, several Old World regions are historically neglected. Aiming close this gap, present study provides most comprehensi...

An annotated list of seven species the genus Hylaeus Fabricius, 1793 collected in Fars Province Iran is presented. Two species, H. (Paraprosopis) gujaraticus Nurse, 1903 and (P.) taeniolatus Förster, 1871 are new additions to Iranian bee fauna. Furthermore, five records for Province. With current additions, total number recorded from now increased 17 66 respectively.

The genus Folsomides Stach, 1922 is represented by four species in the Iranian fauna, two of which are new to the science. Folsomides halshinicus sp. nov. and Folsomides subvinosus sp. nov. are found in Kermanshah Province (Western Iran). The new species belong to the Folsomides angularis (Axelson, 1905) group and they are distinguishable from other congeneric species by the macrochaetotaxy (11...

The following four species new to science are described: Platygaster azarbaijanica Buhl & Asadi sp. nov., lotfalizadehi karimpouri nov. and Synopeas calecai Diagnostic characters discussed, figures provided distinguish the species. In addition, ten of Platygastrinae Howard, 1892 belonging genera Latreille, 1809, Förster, 1856 Leptacis reported as records for fauna Iran. Four one recorded ʻc...