Within Iran, the Zagros Mountains show high biodiversity, with a wealth of endemic species. One these is geometrid moth Somatina wiltshirei Prout, 1938, originally described from Iran and Iraq. In present study, one mitochondrial up to nine protein-coding nuclear gene regions were used along comparative morphological examination investigate systematic position this The results support reclassif...

a review of the known iranian species of the genus asaccus is presented. the genus asaccus is divided into two distinct geographical lineages. the nominotypical group is endemic to the mesopotamian region (western iran, eastern iraq, turkey and syria), and includes asaccus elisae, a. griseonatus, a. kermanshahensis, a. kurdistanensis, a. nasrullahi and a. saffinae, all restricted to the zagros ...

A common deviation from typical subduction models occurs when thrust sheets of oceanic crust and upper-mantle rocks are emplaced over more buoyant continental lithosphere. The archetypal example ophiolite obduction is the Semail in United Arab Emirates (UAE)-Oman orogenic belt, formed obducted onto Arabian margin during Late Cretaceous. Strait Hormuz syntaxis, northern extent UAE-Oman mountains...