Abstract
The Romanian Protura were studied based on 175 specimens collected from Romania, along with bibliographic data. The main publication on the Romanian proturans was written by M.A. Ionescu (1951), who described 13 species mainly from soil and forest litter from 15 collecting points. The current paper represents the first study at a national level. Faunal data on Protura were obtained from 22 sites, mostly from forests of the Romanian Carpathians and also from a peri-urban area of Bucharest, which had not been studied before. As a result, the Romanian Protura fauna now consists of 27 known taxa in 6 genera and 4 families. Of the 27 taxa, 15 species are new records for Romanian fauna. An identification key to the Romanian Protura species is provided.
Highlights
Proturans are found world-wide except in the Arctic and Antarctic regions (Szeptycki 2007) and primarily live in soil, leaf litter, mosses, and decaying wood
Protura were extracted from samples of leaf litter, soil and mosses in Berlese funnels
In our analysis we considered the data taken from 17 Romanian collecting sites mentioned in the literature
Summary
Proturans are found world-wide except in the Arctic and Antarctic regions (Szeptycki 2007) and primarily live in soil, leaf litter, mosses, and decaying wood. These minute soil-inhabiting hexapods can be collected from animal burrows, meadows, and agriculture soils or urban areas. 13 species of Protura have been reported from Romania (Ionescu 1951) All of these records originated from soil and forest litter samples from 15 collecting sites. We have not taken into account this species in the present paper. Falcă (1972) identified four species of Protura from the Retezat Mountains from three types of forests along an elevational gradient of 850‒1800 m
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