Persian Journal of Acarology

Persian Journal of Acarology

Review of the family Digamasellidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) in Iran with threenew recordsanda key to species

Authors
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
10.22073/pja.v13i3.85155
Abstract
Twenty-one species of digamasellid mites were collected from Guilan province in northern Iran. Oligodentatus shcherbakae Barilo, 1989, O. tridentatus Shcherbak & Bregetova, 1980 and Dendrolaelaspis longisetosus (Shcherbak, 1977) are new records for the Iranian mite fauna. Redescriptions, including figures, of the adult female for these three species are provided, based on the material collected from Iran. This paper provides a checklist for 31 digamasellid species recorded from Iran and a taxonomic key for their identification.
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