Scutacarid mites (Acari: Heterostigmata: Scutacaroidea) of Mazandaran province, northern Iran

Rahiminejad, Vahid; Hakimitabar, Masoud; Davari, Milad; Yahyapour, Eliye

doi:10.22073/pja.v13i1.84210

Scutacarid mites (Acari: Heterostigmata: Scutacaroidea) of Mazandaran province, northern Iran

Document Type : Correspondence

Authors

Vahid Rahiminejad ¹

Masoud Hakimitabar ²

Milad Davari ²

Eliye Yahyapour ¹

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

² Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22073/pja.v13i1.84210

Abstract

Despite more than half a century passing since the first report of scutacarid mites from Iran, only 63 species belonging to seven genera have been recorded from various habitats across the country (Rahiminejad et al. 2023). The number is relatively small compared to the more than 800 species known worldwide, belonging to 26 genera (Baumann 2018; Rahiminejad et al. 2022a, 2023). Despite Iran’s diverse climate, which is a result of its location between the Caspian Sea to the north and the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea to the south and also its topography, the number of recorded species is still low. However, the country’s rich flora and fauna are evident throughout the various habitats (Gholizadeh et al. 2020; Rahiminejad et al. 2020a; Rahiminejad et al. 2023).

Keywords

Fauna

Iran

Prostigmata

Scutacaridae

taxonomy

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