the present faunal study of springtails (collembola) was conducted -in city of tehran during 2013­-2014. samples of soil and leaf litters from parks, forests, gardens and green landscapes were collected using berlese funnels. a total of 21 species of eight families were identified of which the species hypogastrura ripperi (gisin, 1952), mesaphorura macrochaeta (rusek, 1976) and friesea claviset...

Tibiotarsi, particularly their chaetotaxy, vary from species to orders in Collembola. Symphypleona, Poduromorpha and Isotomidae have been shown to possess characteristic patterns of tibiotarsal chaetotaxy, but the patterns in Entomobryoidea and Tomoceroidea, where a strong plurichaetosis is the rule, remains undocumented. The tibiotarsal chaetotaxy of first instars of 11 species of the main Ent...