New reports of caraboacarid mites (Acari: Trochometridioidea) from Iran, with some notes on their host specificity

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Plant Production, Gorgan University of Agricultural Science and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

2 Entomology Department, Agricultural Faculty, Islamic Azad University, Arak branch, Arak, Iran

Abstract
During a comprehensive survey of heterostigmatic mites associated with ground beetles and soil samples in northern and northeastern Iran, several colonies of caroboacarid mites, including three species of the genus Caraboacarus Krczal, 1959, C. stammeri Krczal, 1959, C. karenae Nickel & Elzinga, 1969, and C. krczali Eidelberg, 1994 as well as Minicaraboacarus quadridiscalis Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2008 and Intercaraboacarus clivinus Katlav & Hajiqanbar, 2015, were extracted from soil samples and ground beetles of the genera Calosoma Weber, Harpalus Latreille, Amara Bonelli and Scarites Fabricius in the sampling area. The world distribution and host specificity are examined.

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