A new species of the genus FavognathusLuxton (Acari: Cryptognath-idae) from western Azerbaijani,Iran

Hassanzadeh, Mohammad; Khanjani, Mohammad; SafarAlizadeh, Mohammad Hassan; Mirfakhraee, Shahram

doi:10.22073/pja.v3i4.10180

A new species of the genus FavognathusLuxton (Acari: Cryptognath-idae) from western Azerbaijani,Iran

Authors

Mohammad Hassanzadeh ¹

Mohammad Khanjani ²

Mohammad Hassan SafarAlizadeh ¹

Shahram Mirfakhraee ¹

¹ Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Urmia, Urmia,Iran;

² Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University,Hamedan, Iran;

10.22073/pja.v3i4.10180

Abstract

A new species of the genus Favognathus Luxton is described from Iran, namely: F. naghii Hassanzadeh, Khanjani & SafarAlizadeh sp. nov., collected from soil and litter under Cydonia oblonga Mill. (Rosaceae), Sardasht vicinity, Western Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Also, a key to all known species of the genus Favognathus is presented here.

Keywords

Plant

terrestrial mite

litter

lichen

mosses