An updated checklist of chiggers from the family Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae is presented, with 81 species in 38 genera parasitizing different terrestrial vertebrate hosts Panama. The depository for all Panamanian records, including new localities host-associations records Blankaartia sinnamaryi (Floch Fauran, 1956), Eutrombicula tinami (Oudemans, 1910), goeldii Hooperella vesperuginis (...

Field Studies were carried out on the management of potato mite Polyphagotarsonemus latus, through chemical pesticides; Confidence (Imadachlorpid), Diafinthiuran (Diafinthiuran) and Actera (Thiamethoxam) on seasonal plots of Potato crop at Gilgit Baltistan region during 2014. The pesticides were applied at their recommended doses, when the nymph of mite starts appearing and seen easily feeding ...

Two new species of Silphitrombium Fain, 1992 (Acari: Prostigmata: Neothrombiidae), ectoparasites of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera), are described from Sistan and Baluchestan Province, eastern Iran: S. elateridum sp. nov. on Heteroderes heideni Reitter, 1891 (Col.: Elateridae) and S. iranicum sp. nov. on Opatroides punctulatus Brullé, 1832 (Col.: Tenebrionidae) and the genus Silphitrombium is red...

to identify the mite species associated with food products in mashhad, a variety of stored food products were visited and sampled during years 2011 and 2012. storage mites were extracted by means of berlese-tullgreen funnel. mite specimens were cleared using lactic acid or nesbit’s fluid. using hoyer’s medium, cleared specimens were mounted as permanent microscopic slides. specimens were identi...