Fariba Mozaffarian

Iranian Research Institute of Platnt Protection

بدون ترديد شناسايي ارگانيسمها اولين قدم در انجام تحقيقات مختلف بر روي آنها ميباشد. شناخت موجودات، كليد دستيابي به تمامي اطلاعاتي است كه در مورد هر گونه وجود دارد و در پشت اين اسامي نهفتهاند.از اين رو ضروري است تا در تعيين نام و شناسايي ارگانيسمهاي مختلف كمال دقت را به كار برد. از طرف ديگر حفاظت از تنوع زيستي امروزه يكي از اساسيترين مسائل غالب كشوره...

Examination of the materials on Cavatorium dumetorum (Dlabola, 1981), including the type specimens, revealed that Dlabola (1981) based his description of this species on mixed type series. C. dumetorum sensu stricto is clearly distinguished by male anal tube with latero-apical processes and ventral phallobase lobe narrowing apically. Another specie...

Nogodinid genera Issidius Puton, 1898 and Morsina Melichar, 1902 are revised. Iranissus Dlabola, 1980 is placed in synonymy under Issidius Puton and Hadjia Dlabola, 1981, Philbyella China, 1938 and Rileyopsis Bergevin, 1917—under Morsina Melichar. Philbyella adeiba Badawy, El Hamouly et Sawaby, 2011 is placed in synonymy under Ph. elba Linnavuori,...

The calling song of Tibicen esfandiarii Dlabola, 1970 is described for the first time. The calling song consists of a continuous train of syllables (3–9 ms) and short intersyllable intervals (0.4 to 1.9 ms). The song begins at a lower intensity, increasing intensity through a series of steps to the ultimate portion of the call that is produced for...

Following recent detection of ‘ Candidatus Phytoplasma fraxini’, ‘ Ca . P. aurantifolia’, ‘ Ca . P. solani’ and ‘ Ca . P. phoenicium’-related strains in Iranian vineyards, a survey was conducted in 2016–2017 in vineyards located in Qazvin province of Iran. Nested PCR analysis was performed to identify phytoplasma strains in leafhopper species. The...

Objective: To delineate reliable morphological characteristics for identifying and separating female Phlebotomus caucasicus and Phlebotomus mongolensis which exist sympatrically in the main foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran. Methods: Sand flies were collected using sticky trap papers from active colonies of rodent burrows installed f...

scientific note The study was carried out to determine Aphrophoridae species in Eastern Anatolia in 2018. Five species were collected by sweeping net on herbs. The collected specimens were identified as: Aphrophora salicina (Goeze, 1778), Lepyronia coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758), Paraphilaenus notatus (Mulsant & Rey, 1855), Philaenus spumarius (Linna...

An illustrated dichotomous identification key for a total of 54 Auchenorrhyncha species of Iran is presented. The studied species have been recorded as pests and vectors of diseases to fruit trees. Twenty nine records were contributed to Iranian orchards and 25 of which were from other parts of the world. Hence, the latter group can be considered a...

The 22 species of Opiliones recorded from Iran are known from four families: one species of Dicranolasmatidae, five species of Nemastomatidae, 15 species of Phalangiidae, and a single species of Sclerosomatidae. Five of these are recorded for the first time from the country: Dicranolasma ponticum Gruber, 1998, Opilio nabozhenkoi Snegovaya, 2010, Ph...

The first part of this paper provides a historical review of the classification of the family Tettigometridae, including the description of a new tribe, Plesiometrini trib. nov. to accommodate three Afrotropical genera of the subfamily Tettigometrinae. The name Nototettigometra Muir 1924, is proposed to replace Hilda Kirkaldy 1900, homonym of Hilda...

A list of type material of Auchenorrhyncha deposited in Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum is provided including the latest accepted names, full citation, collecting data and the type status of the specimens. A total of 66 type species and 1 subspecies (15 Holotypes, 2 Allotypes and 63 Paratypes) are listed which consist of 278 specimens (15 Holotypes, 2...

The results of the examination of further spider material deposited in the Agricultural Zoology Museum of Iran, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (Tehran, Iran), are reported, most of them from cereal fields and fruit orchards. A total of 634 specimens were studied, out of which, 106 species belonging to 70 genera and 27 families were...

Dubas bug, Ommatissus lybicus de Bergevin (Hem.: Tropiduchidae), is a key pest of date palms in Iran. This pest was first reported on date palms in 1966 and has been established throughout the date producing regions in southern Iran since. Date palm is the only host plant of Dubas bug. It attacks almost all date palm varieties, esp. Mazafati variet...

Tibicen plebejus (Scopoli, 1763) and T. esfandiarii Dlabola, 1970 are the only two species of the genus Tibicen in Iran. In this study, the morphology and distribution of both species in the country are compared and an identification key is provided. Tibicen esfandiarii is usually larger in size and lighter in colour than T. plebejus but overlap in...

A list of Cicadellidae (leafhoppers) of Iran is provided based primarily on literature records from 1902 to the present. In total 390 species are recorded from 13 subfamilies. Ninety three of the recorded species are considered to be endemic to Iran. The current accepted name is given for each species together with synonyms and literature citations...

Abstract An annotated list of Aphrophoridae of Iran is provided, based on examination of specimens housed in the Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum (Iran) and the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (UK) and on previously published records. Ten species are now recorded from Iran. An identification key to the genera and species is provided, with illustratio...

Four gene loci COI, 28S (D4D5 and 28SD6), and 18S (helix 17 up to helix 50) were sequenced successfully for 32 (COI), 29 (18S) and 30 (28S) species from a sampling of 36 species representing 29 genera of the families Issidae, Caliscelidae, Tropiduchidae, Nogodinidae, Ricaniidae, Dictyopharidae, Flatidae and Aphrophoridae. Analysis of the resulting...

Four gene loci COI, 28S (D4D5 and 28SD6), and 18S (helix 17 up to helix 50) were sequenced successfully for 32 (COI), 29 (18S) and 30 (28S) species from a sampling of 36 species representing 29 genera of the families Issidae, Caliscelidae, Tropiduchidae, Nogodinidae, Ricaniidae, Dictyopharidae, Flatidae and Aphrophoridae. Analysis of the resulting...

Four gene loci COI, 28S (D4D5 and 28SD6), and 18S (helix 17 up to helix 50) were sequenced successfully for 32 (COI), 29 (18S) and 30 (28S) species from a sampling of 36 species representing 29 genera of the families Issidae, Caliscelidae, Tropiduchidae, Nogodinidae, Ricaniidae, Dictyopharidae, Flatidae and Aphrophoridae. Analysis of the resulting...

This study presents the morphological description of a new species, Cicadatra pazukii sp. nov., collected from Iran, also providing the diagnosis of the new species with closely related species. An identifi cation key for the Cicadatra species of Iran is submitted. Adding the new species to the list of recorded species of the family Cicadidae in Ir...

The leafhopper fauna of northwestern Iran: Azarbaijan-e-Sharghi, Azarbaijan-e-Gharbi and Ardabil provinces is listed from previously published records and from our current work. Sixty-nine species are included with four species (Mogangella straminea Dlabola, 1957, Doratura stylata (Boheman, 1847), Macrosteles sordidipennis (Stål, 1858) and Psammote...