Sminthurus elegans Fitch, 1863: 657 An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz Greenslade, Penelope Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein Zootaxa 2023 2023-04-28 5275 1 1 101 8Z23Q 1190784 (Fitch, 1863) Fitch 1863 [151,564,871,898] Collembola Katiannidae Sminthurinus Animalia Symphypleona 55 56 Arthropoda species elegans   –   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).