A new species of Leptus (Acari: Erythraeidae) from Iran

Hakimitabar, Masoud; Saboori, Alireza; Fadaei, Elnaz

doi:10.22073/pja.v10i2.65335

A new species of Leptus (Acari: Erythraeidae) from Iran

Authors

Masoud Hakimitabar ¹

Alireza Saboori ²

Elnaz Fadaei ³

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

² Jalal Afshar Zoological Museum, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran,Karaj, Iran;

³ Tarbiat Modares University

10.22073/pja.v10i2.65335

Abstract

Leptus (Leptus) pouryayevalii sp. nov. (Acari: Erythraeidae), collected by shaking the leaves of weeds on white tray (off host) from Koushk Bala village, Chalous road, Alborz Province, Iran, is described and illustrated based on larva. This species belongs to the sudanensis species group and hospeticus species subgroup which can be identified based on the following characters: TFe I without solenidion, Ge I with two solenidia.

Keywords

Alborz Province

larva

Leptinae

Prostigmata

sudanensis species group

Trombidiformes