Neoasterolepisma palmonii (Wygodzinsky, 1942)

Molero, Rafael, Tahami, Mohadeseh Sadat, Gaju, Miquel & Sadeghi, Saber, 2018, A survey of basal insects (Microcoryphia and Zygentoma) from subterranean environments of Iran, with description of three new species, ZooKeys 806, pp. 17-46 : 17

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.806.27320

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A312BA39-89FF-4D43-B6E2-06F880B956E6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3E3B4B9D-4B54-FEA8-B3BE-4036B61FF18D

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scientific name

Neoasterolepisma palmonii (Wygodzinsky, 1942)
status

 

Neoasterolepisma palmonii (Wygodzinsky, 1942)

Studied material.

One male, mounted in a slide. Abu Nasr cave, Shiraz Province, Iran. 12.XI.2015. Deposited in UCO, Ref. Z2515.

Distribution and habitat.

This species is new for Iran. It was previously known from Turkey and Israel ( Mendes 1988), so this record represents a significant extension of its geographic distribution. The only specimen available has been collected from the endogean zone of the cave. The only species of this genus recorded previously from a cave is N. caeca Molero-Baltanás, Bach de Roca & Gaju-Ricart, 1999, collected inside a lava cave (Molero et al. 1999) in La Palma (Canary Islands).