during 2013–2014. Specimens were collected from both leaf litter and surface layer of the
soil in Oak forest (Quercus infectoria), Elm trees and grasslands). Totally four species from
three genera were found. All of them are new for Kermanshah province and Protaphorura
levantina (Christiansen, 1956) and Vibronychiurus archivari (Christiansen, 1956) were not
previously recorded in Iran; it is also the first time that the genus of Vibronychiurus Pomorski …