A survey of Ciidae Leach, 1819 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the Hyrcanian Forest (Iran) with new faunistic records

• Published in: Zoodiversity (Vestnik Zoologii)
• Date: 2020
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 4
• ISSN: 2707-7268
• Author Affiliations: Sudabe Amini — University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran — ORCID: 0000-0002-7475-3764; Roman Krolik — Mickiewicza, 8, 46-200 Kluczbork, Poland; Jamasb Nozari — University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran — ORCID: 0000-0002-2649-7751; Mohammad Ebrahim Farashiani — Research institute of Forest and Rangeland, Agriculture Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran — ORCID: 0000-0002-5718-5355; Farzane Kazerani — Research institute of Forest and Rangeland, Agriculture Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran — ORCID: 0000-0003-1968-3350
• Main Authors: Amini, Sudabe, Krolik, Roman, Nozari, Jamasb, Farashiani, Mohammad Ebrahim, Kazerani, Farzane
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Publishing House "Akademperiodyka" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 2020
• Online Access: https://ojs.akademperiodyka.org.ua/index.php/Zoodiversity/article/view/72
• Journal Title: Zoodiversity

Ciidae are a small family of mycetophagus beetles with only nine species so far recorded in Iran. The occurrence of four of them has now been confirmed. During the 2014-2017 survey in the Hyrcanian Forest, North Iran, 12 species belonging to 6 genera have been recorded for the first time in Iran. As...