First record of Macrocheles caelatus Berlese (Mesostigmata, Macrochelidae) from Iran

Saeed, Fateme; Kazemi, Shahrooz

doi:10.22073/pja.v8i1.43387

First record of Macrocheles caelatus Berlese (Mesostigmata, Macrochelidae) from Iran

Authors

Fateme Saeed

Shahrooz Kazemi

Department of Biodiversity, Institute of Science and High Technology andEnvironmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, P.O.Box:76315-117, Kerman, Iran;E-mails: fateme.saeed23@gmail.com,shahroozkazemi@yahoo.com&sh.kazemi@kgut.ac.ir

https://doi.org/10.22073/pja.v8i1.43387

Abstract

In a faunistic survey on edaphic Mesostigmata in some parks in Kerman City, a female specimen of M. caelatus Berlese, 1918 was collected which considered as a new record for Iran mite fauna.