Persian Journal of Acarology

A new ant-associated species of Laelaspis (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from Iran

Authors

Arsalan Khalili-Moghadam 1
Alireza Saboori 1
Alireza Nemati 2
Azadeh Zahedi Golpayegani 1

1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran; E-mails: khalili92@ut.ac. ir, saboori@ut.ac.ir, zahedig@ut.ac.ir

2 Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran; E-mail: alireza. nemat@ymail.com

https://doi.org/10.22073/pja.v7i3.38727
Abstract
In this paper, a new species of the genus Laelaspis Berlese, L. angustiseta sp. nov.­­­­ is described based on morphological characters of the adult female specimens collected in association with Tapinoma erraticum (Latreille) and Tapinoma simrothi Krausse (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province, Iran. 

Keywords

Adult
Dermanyssoidea
description
female
myrmecophilous mites
taxonomy
Persian Journal of Acarology
Volume 7, Issue 3
Summer 2018
Pages 221-234

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