a new report of terrestrial parasitengona mites (acari: prostigmata: trombidiidae) from iran

A new family of trombidioid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) from Iran

Achaemenothrombium cyrusi gen. et sp. nov. (Acari, Prostigmata: Trombidioidea) is described and illustrated from larvae ectoparasitic on Catocala sp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Tehran, Iran and Achaemenothrombium talebii (Karimi Irvanlou & Kamali, 2001) comb. nov. is redescribed. A new family, Achaemenothrombiidae is proposed for accommodating this genus. A key to families of larval Trombidi...

Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) associated with Compositae in Iran.

Five species of eriophyoid mites were identified during surveys of mite fauna associated with plant species of the family Compositae from Southwest of East Azerbaijan province during 2010 and 2011. Two of them, Aceria virgatae n. sp. from Centaurea virgata Lam. and Aceria xeranthenzis n. sp. from Xeranthemumn squarrosum Boiss., were found to be new to science. No damage symptoms were observed o...

گزارش جدیدی از کنه‌های Parasitengona خشکی‌زی ‌((Acari: Prostigmata: Trombidiidae از ایران

Two new records of spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) from Iran

خانواده‌ی Tetranychidae گونه‌های زیادی دارد که همگی آفات محصولات کشاورزی هستند. دو گونه از کنه‌های این خانواده، Eotetranychus uncatus Garman و E. potentillae Begl. et Mitr برای اولین‌بار از ایران گزارش می‌شوند. گونه‌ی اول از شهرستان مراغه روی آلوچه و گونه‌ی دوم از گچسر (واقع در جاده چالوس) روی تمشک در تابستان 1388 جمع‌آوری شد.

Notes on the genus Dolichothrombium (Acari: Prostigmata: Trombidiidae) with description of a new species

A new species, Dolichothrombium anatoliae sp. nov., is described based on active postlarval forms and larvae. Larvae of Dolichothrombium Feider, 1945 were obtained for the first time by experimental rearing from field-collected females. Azaritrombium Saboori, Bagheri et Haddad Irani-nejad, 2005, hitherto known exclusively from larvae, is regarded as a junior synonym of Dolichothrombium. Diagnos...

New species and new records of mites of the genus Stigmaeus(Acari: Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae) from Crimea.

Three new species of the genus Stigmaeus Koch, 1836 (Acari: Stigmaeidae) are described from various habitats in Crimea: Stigmaeus kuznetsovi sp. nov. from nests of Microtus socialis (Rodentia: Cricetidae); S. mitrofanovi sp. nov. from galleries of Pityogenes bistridentatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) under the bark of Pinus pallasiana, and S. silvestris sp. nov. from rotten log of Pinus pallasi...