Mites of the families Trachyuropodidae Berlese and Urodiaspididae Trägårdh (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodina) from Iran

Kazemi, Shahrooz; Mohammad-Dustar-sharaf, Mojtaba; Saberi, Sepideh

doi:10.22073/pja.v5i3.21711

Mites of the families Trachyuropodidae Berlese and Urodiaspididae Trägårdh (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodina) from Iran

Authors

Shahrooz Kazemi

Mojtaba Mohammad-Dustar-sharaf

Sepideh Saberi

Department of Biodiversity, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran;

10.22073/pja.v5i3.21711

Abstract

Herein, two genera, Urodiaspis Berlese and Urojanetia Berlese, and four species, Trachyuropoda hirschmanni Pecina, 1980, Urodiaspis tecta (Kramer, 1876), Urodiaspis pannonica Willmann, 1951 and Urojanetia excavata (Wasmann, 1899), are reported for the first time from Iran. Additionally, Urodiaspis pannonicasimilis Bal and Özkan, 2009 is considered as junior synonym of U. pannonica, and new morphological data for this species represented.

Keywords

Fauna

Monogynaspida

new synonym

soil inhabiting mites

Uropodoidea