Mites of the Raphignathoidea (Acari: Prostigmata) from Zanjan vicinities and description of male of Stigmaeusshabestariensis

Fakhari, Narges; Khanjani, Mohammad; Rahmani, Hasan; Khanjani, Masoumeh

doi:10.22073/pja.v3i3.10151

Mites of the Raphignathoidea (Acari: Prostigmata) from Zanjan vicinities and description of male of Stigmaeusshabestariensis

Authors

Narges Fakhari ¹

Mohammad Khanjani ²

Hasan Rahmani ¹

Masoumeh Khanjani ²

¹ Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran

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

10.22073/pja.v3i3.10151

Abstract

Raphignathoid mites are important biological control agents of spider and eriophyid mites, and scale insects in agriculture and forestry. Therefore, a study on the fauna of superfamily Raphignathoidea in Zanjan city was carried out during 2012–2013. In this survey, 23 species belonging to 8 genera from 4 different families were collected and identified. Among them male of Stigmaeus shabestariensis Haddad Irani-Nejad, Lotfollahi & Akbari, 2010 was recorded for the first time from Zanjan, Iran and was new report to Acari fauna of the world, and also S. shabestariensis Haddad Irani-Nejad Haddad Irani-Nejad, Lotfollahi & Akbari, 2010 was the abundant mite species in Zanjan vicinities in our collected specimens.

Keywords

Spider mites

Camerobiidae

Raphignathidae

Eupallopsellidae

Caligonellidae

Stigmaeidae