First record of the halobiontic Diplodontus semiperforatus (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from North Khorasan,with notes on water mites from saline habitats ofIran

Pešić, Vladimir; Bańkowska, Aleksandra; Saboori, Alireza; Mabrouki, Youness; Fouzi Taybi, Abdelkhaleq; Zawal, Andrzej

doi:10.22073/pja.v12i4.83663

First record of the halobiontic Diplodontus semiperforatus (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from North Khorasan,with notes on water mites from saline habitats ofIran

Authors

Vladimir Pešić ¹

Aleksandra Bańkowska ²

Alireza Saboori ³

Youness Mabrouki ⁴

Abdelkhaleq Fouzi Taybi ⁵

Andrzej Zawal ⁶

¹ Department of Biology, University of Montenegro

² Institute of Biology, University of Szczecin, Wąska 13, 71-415 Szczecin, Poland

³ Jalal Afshar Zoological Museum, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

⁴ Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Faculté des Sciences de Dhar El Mehraz, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, Conservation et Valorisation des Ressources Naturelles, Fes, Morocco

⁵ Mohammed First University, Multidisciplinary Faculty of Nador, Applied Biology and Biotechnology Research Team, Morocco

⁶ Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Center of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Szczecin, Wąska 13, 71–415 Szczecin, Poland

10.22073/pja.v12i4.83663

Abstract

We report the first record of Diplodontus semiperforatus (Walter, 1925) for Iran. Thus far, this halobiontic species was only known from the Western Mediterranean. We discuss the environmental characteristics of the sampling sites and present the first barcodes of D. semiperforatus and its sister species D. scapularis Dugès, 1834.

Keywords

DNA barcoding

first record

Morocco

saline waters

Trombidiformes