Hypogastrura socialis ( Uzel, 1891 )

Kahrarian, Morteza, Vafaei-Shoushtari, Reza, Skarżyński, Dariusz, Konikiewicz, Marta, Soleymannezhadyan, Ebrahim, Mehr, Masoumeh Shayan & Shams, Bahman, 2013, A new species and new records of the genus Hypogastrura Bourlet, 1839 (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) from Iran, Zootaxa 3709 (1), pp. 89-94 : 93

Hypogastrura socialis ( Uzel, 1891)

Material examined. 3 females, 3 males, soil and litter, oak forest, Zagros Mountains, southern slope of the Koor Koor mountain, near Chahar zebar-e-oliya village (N34°13’ E46°40’ /1600 a.s.l.), Kermanshah County, Kermanshah Province, Iran, 4.xii.2012, leg. M. Kahrarian; 3 females, 5 males, the same data as above, but 16.i.2013.

Note. H. socialis is cyclomorphic, mass occuring and active on snow. The species is widely distributed in the Palaearctic ( Babenko et al. 1994, Thibaud et al. 2004). Studied material comprised a winter form of the species with typically tooth-like granules and prominent apical swelling on the dens and large subapical tooth of the mucro ( Fig. 7 ). This species has been recorded from Iran for the first time.

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FIGURES 7 – 10. Hypogastrura socialis, winter form: 7, furca and dens; Hypogastrura purpurescens, ecomorphic specimen: 8, pointed tenent hairs on tibiotarsus III; 9, anal spines on high papillae and coarse granules on abdominal tergum VI; 10, dens with coarse granules and reduced mucro.