Sminthurinus elegans (Fitch, 1863)

– Sminthurus elegans Fitch, 1863: 657 .

MAZ: Cox 1982; Yahyapour & Shayanmehr 2011; Yahyapour 2012; Yoosefi Lafooraki 2014; Mehrafrooz Mayvan et al. 2015a; Yoosefi Lafooraki & Shayanmehr 2015b; Ghasemi Cherati 2017; GO: Falahati et al. 2013b; KBH: Falahati et al. 2013c; KS: Ghahramaninezhad et al. 2013; Kahrarian 2015; KE: Abdolalizadeh 2018; Abdolalizadeh et al. 2019; LO: Moradi et al. 2018, 2019; TE: Moravvej 2003; Qazi & Shayanmehr 2016b; NK: Mehrafrooz Mayvan et al. 2021.

Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil and leaf litter under cypress trees and moss on timbers.

General distribution: Holarctic with some records from the southern hemisphere (Babenko et al. 2019).