Heteromurus major (Moniez, 1889)

Bakhshi, Arash, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Mohammadi Sharif, Mahmood, Yahyapour, Eliye & Kaprus, Igor, 2022, A faunistic study of springtails (Hexapoda, Collembola) from Hezarjirib forests (Neka, Mazandaran) with three new records of Iran, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (3), pp. 395-410 : 402

Heteromurus major (Moniez, 1889)

Materials examined: Three specimens, Iran, Mazandaran province, Neka, Sika village, Hezarjirib forests, leaf litter, 36º24 ʹ 16 ʺ N, 53º33 ʹ 0.047 ʺ E, 1022 m a.s.1., 28-V-2021 , six specimens, Mazandaran province, Neka, Emamzade Yahya village, Hezarjirib forests, soil and leaf litter, 36º22 ʹ 6.98 ʺ N, 53º33 ʹ 21 ʺ E, 1334 m a.s.1., 28-V-2021 ; two specimens, Neka, Kamshi village, Hezarjirib forests, leaf litter, 36º31 ʹ 59 ʺ N, 53º33 ʹ 44 ʺ E, 856 m a.s.1., 28-V-2021 , five specimens, Neka, Ghormaraz village, Hezarjirib forests, soil and leaf litter, 36º35 ʹ 52 ʺ N, 53º24 ʹ 13 ʺ E, 346 m a.s.1., 27-V-2021 , one specimen, Neka, Okerka village, Hezarjirib forests, leaf litter, 36º35 ʹ 56 ʺ N, 53º26 ʹ 23 ʺ E, 449 m a.s.1., 25-V-2021, leg.: Arash Bakhshi.

Distribution in Iran: The species is common and collected from soil and leaf litter in different parts of Iran, East Azarbaijan, Golestan (Gorgan - Alangdarre forest), Guilan (Rasht), Mazandaran (Babol- Qaemshahr, Sari, Savadkooh, Lafoor, Noor, Katel-Shani, Noor, Forest of Sisangan wildlife refuge; Larijan), Tehran, Kermanshah (Kermanshah, Chalabeh, Char, Zabar, Paveh, Shahu, Quri Qal’eh, Harsin) and Lorestan provinces ( Shayanmehr et al., 2020).

General distribution: Cosmopolitan species. Widely distributed in Australia, Chile, France, Germany, Greece, former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Palestine, Portugal, Romany, Spain, Switzerland, Republic of Azerbaijan, and former Yugoslavia ( Mari Mutt, 1980).