A redescription of Charletonia damavandica(Acari: Erythraeidae)

Hakimitabar, Masoud; Fadaei, Elnaz; Tork, Mehdi

doi:10.22073/pja.v11i4.76039

A redescription of Charletonia damavandica(Acari: Erythraeidae)

Authors

Masoud Hakimitabar ¹

Elnaz Fadaei ²

Mehdi Tork ³

¹ Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

² Acarological Society of Iran, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

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

10.22073/pja.v11i4.76039

Abstract

We redescribed and illustrated Charletonia damavandica on the basis of examination of its type and new materials which were collected ectoparasitic on Calliptamus italicus (Insecta: Orthoptera: Acrididae) as hosts from Shahrood city, Semnan province, Iran as a new host record.

Keywords

Iran

new host

Prostigmata

Orthoptera

Shahrood

synonymy

Trombidiformes