the fauna of the superfamily bombylioidea was studied in alborz province, iran during 2012. two families (bombyliidae and mythicomyiidae), eight genera and ten species were identified, of which two species, exoprospora dispar loew, 1869; parageron lutescens (bezzi, 1925), are new records for the iranian fauna. an identification key for the species of the family mythicomyiidae known from iran is...

background: scorpions are known as the most widespread poisonous creatures that cause casualties and death to human. they are distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. among the sixteen iranian island in the persian gulf, qeshm island is the biggest and is located in the focus of the important internal and international commercial marinelines. furthermore, thousands of tourists also visit ...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about the amphistomid fauna in Iranian domestic ruminants depends on the studies conducted almost 30 years ago. The last situation in cattle is introduced here in the provinces in south coast of Caspian Sea. METHODS Amphistomid species were collected from cattle at slaughter houses of the provinces Gilan and Mazanderan in 2010. Median sagittal sections were prepared by th...

Five species of eriophyoid mites were identified during surveys of mite fauna associated with plant species of the family Compositae from Southwest of East Azerbaijan province during 2010 and 2011. Two of them, Aceria virgatae n. sp. from Centaurea virgata Lam. and Aceria xeranthenzis n. sp. from Xeranthemumn squarrosum Boiss., were found to be new to science. No damage symptoms were observed o...

Springtails fauna (Hexapoda, Collembola) from different ecosystems of Behshahr and suburb (Mazandaran) with two new records Iran

Result obtained during ten years research work (1990-2000) on distribution of monogenean fauna Iranian fishes indicates that its composition of monogenean fauna of Iranian fishes depends on their habit and since Iran includes three different zoogeographical zones with highly endemic fish hosts, its monogenean parasites have specific composition. The Caspian fauna is characterized by relatively ...

background: scorpions’ stings and their own mortalities place them among the most important health and medical problems. the dreadful features and especially their poisonous stings are considered a major cause of human stress and abhorrence/phobia. the current study aimed to study the scorpion fauna of ilam province, south western iran in order to manage scorpionism related problems. methods: i...

b a ckground : this study aimed to identify and determine the larval and adult mosquitoes (culicidae) fauna in hamedan county, western iran. m e t hods: it was a cross-sectional study which took place in four area of the hamedan county. sampling methods for larvae, pupae and adults were dipping, hand catch, night catch and total catch. larvae and adult mosquitoes col- lected and were sent to la...

A survey on the click beetles (Coleoptera, Elateridae) in province of Kurdistan (Iran), with three new records for Iranian fauna