Persian Journal of Acarology

Persian Journal of Acarology

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

Authors
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
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. 
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