I could help you only by intentifying the beetle group (Meloidae) I study, and which is common in desert habita and biogeographiclally informative. Marco
not sure if you will find/have found any psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) during your work. If so, I would be happy to have a look at them and help you in the classification!
if you would like any help in plant biodiversity specially desert plant (identification, ecology and biodiversity) contact me. i am a member of faculty of natural resources and desertification of yazd university, Iran.
I would be interested in Scarabaeidae, Aphodiidae and Geotrupidae (Coleoptera). I do have many species from Israel and Jordan in my collection and I would work on material from Iraq together with some other experts.
I can take high resolution images of the true bugs Heteroptera and upload your observations to the citizen science portal iNaturalist. If the specimens can't be identified on the image(s) alone, I can forward those specimens to the specialised experts (see comments by BL and PM above).
This would save you from the trouble of having to identify each specimen to family level first. I can presort your bugs to family or genus level.
For the Heteroptera, I suggest using UV light to collect bugs at night, plus some litter sifting and hand searching in other microhabitats. If you have a botanist around, plant names are very helpful when collecting bugs by sweep nets or beating sheets, in particular for the plant bugs Miridae.
Please have a look here to see some Heteropera I collected in Borneo, using iNaturalist to faciliate the identification process:
I'm interesting in collaboration and if you would like I can help you with identification of Noctuoidea and some other Macrolepidoptera (Bombycoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Drepanoidea & Papilionoidea).
I would be interested in looking at biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) and ticks (Ixodidae, Argasidae) from Iraq. You can contact me at [email protected].
I work on Histeridae and dung beetles, so I could identify these groups. As I see, there is interest from Dr. Buse for dung beetles, so I could focus on histerids.