insects with over 30,000 aquatic species are known as very successful arthropods in freshwater habitats. some of them are applied as biological indicators for water quality control, as well as the main food supply for fishes and amphibians. the faunistic studies are the basic step in entomological researches; the current study was carried out emphasizing on the fauna of aquatic insects in karaj...

Abstract Deciphering the timing of lineage diversification and extinction has greatly benefited in last decade from methodological developments fossil-based analyses. If these advances are increasingly used to study past dynamics vertebrates, other taxa such as insects remain relatively neglected. Our understanding how insect clades waxed waned or impact major paleoenvironmental changes during ...