The Collembola of Lebanon and Western Syria. Part I. General Considerations and the Family Onychiuridae

[摘要] The Collembolan fauna of the eastern end of the Mediterraneanis still very poorly known. Brown (1926)made the first major contribution by describing twelvespecies taken by Buxton and Evans in the region ofAmara and Baghdad in Iraq. Handschin (1942) recordedall but one of these species from Palestine, and added 26additional forms. In his recent paper upon the Collembolataken during a speleological expedition in Lebanon, Cassagnau(1951) added 25 new forms to this list. Inaddition to these major works a number of smaller papershave been published upon new material or further records.The series of papers, of which this is the first, willconstitute a description of over 80 species collected fromLebanon and Western Syria. More than 35 are new toscience or new records for the Near East. Collectionsupon which this study was based were made from overI00 localities including most of the major habitats of theregion. Caves were poorly represented, but these havealready been extensively investigated by Cassagnau (op. cit.).

[学科分类] 生物科学（综合）