Oppiid mites (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae) from Alborz Province, with a key to the known species and new records for Iran

Keshavarz Jamshidian, Maryam; Akrami, Mohammad Ali; Saboori, Alireza

doi:10.22073/pja.v4i1.10183

Oppiid mites (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae) from Alborz Province, with a key to the known species and new records for Iran

Authors

Maryam Keshavarz Jamshidian ¹

Mohammad Ali Akrami ²

Alireza Saboori ³

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran;

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

³ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj,Iran;

10.22073/pja.v4i1.10183

Abstract

In the course of a faunistic survey on oppiid mites in Alborz Province, 29 oppiid mite species (Oribatida: Oppiidae) belonging to 11 genera were identified from soil and litter samples, of which three species and one subspecies are new records for the mite fauna of Iran. For new species records, a brief diagnostic characterization is provided. A key to the subfamilies, genera and subgenera of Alborz Province is given. Moreover, a key to species for genera with more than one species is presented.

Keywords

Sarcoptiformes

new records

taxonomy

Iran

Oppioidea