Pseudosinella octopunctata Börner, 1901

Mehrafrooz Mayvan, Mahmood, Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh & Greenslade, Penelope, 2022, Contribution to the knowledge of Entomobryomorpha (Hexapoda: Collembola) from Northeastern Iran with new records and a key to the species, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (2), pp. 151-174 : 155

Pseudosinella octopunctata Börner, 1901

Material examined: 5 specimens, Darkesh-Jozak forest , 37°27′01″N, 56°48′46″E, 1573 m a.s.l, collected from soil under maple trees ( Acer monspessulanum sub sp. turcomanicum), May 2019 ; 2 specimens, Golil-Sarany rangeland, 37°50′38″N, 57°51′51″E, 1972 m a.s.l, collected from soil under centaury plants ( Centaurea aucheri ), May 2019 ; 4 specimens, Oghaz village , 37°32′19″N, 58°10′43″E, 1604 m a.s.l, collected from soil of alfalfa field, May 2019 .

Habitat and distribution in Iran: It has already been reported from soil, leaf litter, moss on rocks and in a rice field in Zanjan, Guilan, East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, Mazandaran ( Sari, Babolsar, Qaemshahr, Larijan, Babol ), Tehran, Isfahan (Zarrinshahr), Golestan (Kordkuy, Imam Reza forest, Palangpa forest, Gorgan, Alangdarreh forest, Naharkhoran forest, Ziarat), Kermanshah (Sar-e-pol-e- Zahab, Patagh, Qareh Bolagh, Rijab, Habibvand, Sahneh, Sonqor, Guilan-e-Gharb, Qasr-e-shirin, Kangavar, Paveh, Harsin, Gahvareh, Eslamabad-e-gharb, Tazeh abad, Javanrud, Sonqor), Kerman (Shahdad, Sirch village) and Lorestan by Cox (1982), Yahyapour (2012), Yoosefi Lafooraki (2014), Yoosefi Lafooraki & Shayanmehr (2013, 2014), Qazi & Shayanmehr (2014), Kahrarian et al. (2014, 2015), Balvasi et al. (2015), Mehrafrooz Mayvan et al. (2015), Darvish-Motevalli (2016), Hosseini et al. (2016), Alijani-Ardeshir et al. (2017), Ghasemi Cherati (2017), Moradi et al. (2018) and Abdolalizadeh et al. (2019).

General distribution and ecology: Cosmopolitan. A characteristic species in dry, warm habitats with patchy vegetation such as scree and gravel/sand slopes ( Fjellberg, 2007).