Although arthropods are among the most diverse, abundant and ecologically important animals in terrestrial ecosystems, they generally neglected biodiversity inventories due to their complex systematics overwhelming diversity, coupled with current decline number of taxonomists. For this reason, several surrogate groups for arthropod diversity have been proposed, plants being identified as a good...

the carabid beetle pterostichus (phonias) strenuus (panzer) is newly recorded from iran. it was collected by hand from ghaleroudkhan forests in the caspian province of guilan. this carabid beetle is widely distributed throughout the palaearctic region including europe, uzbekistan, kazakhstan and russian far east.

ptinidae or spider beetles, is a worldwide family of beetles especially distributed in the subtropical and temperate zones including iran. niptus holoeucus (golden spider beetle) from kangohar cave in fars province (iran) is described as new record for iran. we regarded this beetle as a troglophile and guanophile species.

fumigant toxicity of various doses of essential oils (185.2, 370.4, 555.5, 740.7, 925.4, 1111.1, and 1296.3 µl/l water) from five officinal plants, including rosemary (rosmarinus officinalis), lavender (lavandula vera), fennel (foeniculum vulgare), tarragon (artemisia dracunculus)and summer savory (satureja hortensis)on two stored products pests, cowpea weevil (callosobruchus maculatus) and red...

An annotated list of eight species the genus Oligota collected in Belarus 1982–2020 is given. Three species, O. inexspectata Williams, 1994, pseudoparva 1972 and ruficornis Sharp, 1870, are new for Belarusian fauna. The data on distri¬bution ecology these rove beetles also