First record of Samsinakia trilobitus (Prostigmata, Cheyletidae) from Iran

Kazemi, Shahrooz; Paktinat-Saeij, Saeid

doi:10.22073/pja.v10i1.64452

First record of Samsinakia trilobitus (Prostigmata, Cheyletidae) from Iran

Authors

Shahrooz Kazemi ¹

Saeid Paktinat-Saeij ²

¹ Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran

² Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran

10.22073/pja.v10i1.64452

Abstract

A cheyletid mite species of the genus Samsinakia, S. trilobitus Bochkov & Mironov, 1998, was removed from under elytra of an unknown (host has been lost) scarab beetle (Col., Scarabaeidae) of the genus Copris Geoffroy collected Nour City, Mazandaran Province, which is considered as a new species record for mite fauna of Iran.

Keywords

Cheyletoidea

female

phoretic mites

Prostigmata

taxonomy