title: Redescription of Protanura papillata Cassagnau & Delamare Deboutteville, 1955 (Collembola, Neanuridae, Neanurinae), with new records from Middle East, and with supplemented diagnosis and key to the genus.
abstract: The poorly known Neanurini genus Protanura is rediagnosed and briefly compared with Lathriopyga. Protanura papillata Cassagnau & Delamare Deboutteville, 1955, known to date only from Lebanon, is redescribed based on the lectotype and new extensive material from Middle East.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 63-77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland.; Email: adek@biol.uni.wroc.pl.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smolis
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 63-77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland.; Email: hypogast@biol.uni.wroc.pl.
authors.forename: Dariusz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Skarżyński
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant breeding and Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran.; Email: mkahrarian@iauksh.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Morteza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kahrarian
authors.affiliation: State Museum of natural history, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Teatral'na 18, UA-79008 L'viv, Ukraine.; Email: i-kaprus@mail.ru.
authors.forename: Ighor J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Kaprus
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000818:Animals; D001181:Arthropods / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D002965:Classification; D008877:Middle East; D013045:Species Specificity