Protaphorura Absolon, 1901

Yahyapour, Eliye, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Vafaei-Shoushtari, Reza & Arbea, Javier I., 2020, A review of the Iranian species of the family Onychiuridae (Collembola Poduromorpha), with description of five new species from Hyrcanian Forests in Iran, Zootaxa 4861 (1), pp. 1-22 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4536311
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scientific name	Protaphorura Absolon, 1901
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Genus Protaphorura Absolon, 1901 .

Protaphorura golestanica Kaprus’, Shayanmehr & Kahrarian, 2017 (in: Kaprus’ et al. 2017)

Material examined. 2 males, 1 female and 2 juveniles. Iran: Mazandaran Province, Kiyasar county, Langar forest , 1800 m a.s.l. (36º14ʹ20ʺ N, 53º39ʹ10ʺ E), soil and leaf litter, 29 April 2016, leg. Eliye Yahyapour. GoogleMaps

Distribution and ecology. So far only known from the type locality in Golestan province, Northern Iran. The species was found in Mazandaran forests that is the second record of the species. It was found in forest soil and leaf litter.