Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Taft county, Yazd province of Iran, with new records

Ali Akrami, Mohammad; Shahedi, Alireza

doi:10.22073/pja.v9i2.58955

Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Taft county, Yazd province of Iran, with new records

Authors

Mohammad Ali Akrami ¹

Alireza Shahedi ²

¹ Department of Plant Protection, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

² Department of Plant Protection, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran; E-mails: akrami@shirazu.ac.ir, shahedi.a19910505@gmail.com

10.22073/pja.v9i2.58955

Abstract

Faunal study of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in Taft township (Yazd province, central Iran) was conducted for the first time. In total, 63 species belonging to 48 genera and 31 families were collected and identified. Among them, five species Cosmochthonius plumatus Berlese, 1910, Thamnacarus smirnovi Bulanova-Zachvatkina, 1978, Acrotritia simile Mahunka, 1982, Belba bulanovae Subías, 2016, and Bipassalozetes lineolatus (Sitnikova, 1975) are newly recorded for mite fauna of Iran, and 13 families, 25 genera and 36 species are reported for the first time from the Yazd province.

Keywords

Arthropoda

central Iran

Cryptostigmata

fauna

Sarcoptiformes