during an investigation on edaphic mite fauna of orchards and parks of tehran, some species belonging to the superfamily pygmephoroidea were collected and identified, of which bakerdania graciloides sevastianov is considered to be a new record for iran.

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...

a survey was conducted on the fauna of the hover flies in northern iran in 2011. among the collected and identified material, the genus temnostoma le peletier & serville, 1828represented by a single species, t. vespiforme (linnaeus, 1758) is newly detected in iran. diagnostic characters and geographical distribution of the newly recorded species is briefly discussed.

during 2010–2011, a faunistic study of the family syrphidae was carried out in torbat heydarie, roshtkhar and khaf (razavi khorasan province), northeastern iran. among the collected specimens, we found two species, paragus gussakovskii bańkowska and platycheirus immarginatus zetterstedt which are new records for the fauna of iran.

fauna of the aphidiinae (hymenoptera: braconidae) of iran is reviewed and the data on their host aphid associations are summarized. seventy-eight species belonging to 17 genera of aphidiinae are listed in the associations with 193 aphid species. a total of 491 parasitoid-aphid associations are presented. the distribution of the aphidiinae species in different parts of iran and other countries i...