a study on the oripodoid mites fauna (oribatida: oripodoidea) in miandoab region (west azerbaijan province) was carried out during 2015–2016. in this survey, 16 species belonging to three families and five genera are known, of which the species scheloribates ( scheloribates ) labyrinthicus jeleva, 1962 is recorded for the first time from iran. an additional description is provided for schelorib...

during 1999-2002, in the course of a faunistic survey of oribatid mites of iran, twelve species of higher or brachypyline oribatid mites (brachypylina) belonging to eleven gen-era and seven families from various localities of iran were collected: aleurodamaeus* se-tosus (aleurodamaeidae*); licnobelba* alestensis (licnobelbidae*); licnodamaeus fissu-ratus, l. pulcherrimus (licnodamaeidae); damae...

A recent publication in Biology Letters added a new family, Eleutherodacytlidae, to the list of frogs known to possess defensive, toxic alkaloids in their skin— the so-called ‘poison frogs’ [1]. The alkaloids have attracted much attention since they are not synthesized by frogs de novo, but rather are obtained from dietary sources and subsequently sequestered in the frogs’ skin [2]. These ‘clep...

Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) comprise a taxonomically and morphologically diverse suborder of about 10,000 described species, not including the hyporder Astigmata, with collectively a global distribution. They are primarily soil and litter inhabitants, feeding on fungi and decaying plant remains with various levels of specificity. Though all five active instars are important for reasons th...

a faunestic survey of the euoribatid mites of shendabad region (east azerbaijan province, iran), was carried out during three different times of the year 2008 (mid-july, mid-august as well as mid-september). by use of the berlese funnel, the mites were extracted, cleared in nesbitt’s fluid following which microscopic slides were prepared. during the study, 31 species belonging to 21 genera, 13 ...