Additional descriptionof Hypochthoniella minutissima(Acari: Oribarida) with a checklist and a key to the enarthronotic oribatid mites of Guilan Province, Iran

Mortazavi, Shabnam; Hajizadeh, Jalil; Akrami, Mohammad Ali

doi:10.22073/pja.v5i1.16477

Additional descriptionof Hypochthoniella minutissima(Acari: Oribarida) with a checklist and a key to the enarthronotic oribatid mites of Guilan Province, Iran

Authors

Shabnam Mortazavi ¹

Jalil Hajizadeh ¹

Mohammad Ali Akrami ²

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculy of Agricultural Science, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran;

² Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz,Iran;

10.22073/pja.v5i1.16477

Abstract

Hypochthoniella minutissima (Berlese, 1904) is newly reported from Guilan Province Iran. After comparison with the original description and redescriptions, we here provide an expanded description, including illustrations for the adult, based on the material collected from Guilan Province Iran. A checklist and an identification key to the twenty species of arthronotic oribatid mites of Guilan Province are provided. The genus and subgenus Eohypochthonius (Eohypochthonius) Jacot, and Eohypochthonius (Eohypochthonius) magnus Aoki, E. (E.) crassisetiger Aoki, Cosmochthonius (Cosmochthonius) plumatus Berlese, Brachychthonius impressus Moritz and B. hungaricus (Balogh) are new records for Iran mite fauna.

Keywords

Iran

Guilan

Oribatid mites

Enarthronota

new record

redescription