Redescription of six species of the genus Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae: Typhlodrominae) recorded from some regions of Western and North–Western Iran

Asali Fayaz, Bahman; Khanjani, Mohammad; Tixier, Marie-Stéphane

doi:10.22073/pja.v2i3.10041

Redescription of six species of the genus Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae: Typhlodrominae) recorded from some regions of Western and North–Western Iran

Authors

Bahman Asali Fayaz ¹

Mohammad Khanjani ²

Marie-Stéphane Tixier ²

¹ Ph. D student of Agricultural Entomology, Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Bu–Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran;

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

10.22073/pja.v2i3.10041

Abstract

Collects of Phytoseiidae species of the genus Typhlodromus Scheuten have been carried out in some regions of Western and North–Western Iran from 2008–2011. This paper presents the redescription of six species belonging to two subgenera Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) De Leon and Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) Scheuten (each with three species, respectively): T. (A.) bagdasarjani Wainstein & Arutunjan, T. (A.) kerkirae Swirski & Ragusa, T. (A.) khosrovensis Arutunjan, T. (T.) phialatus Athias–Henriot, T. (T.) leptodactylus Wainstein and T. (T.) tubifer Wainstein. It is the first record of T. (T.) phialatus Athias–Henriot for the Iranian phytoseiid fauna. This paper also provides an identification key of the species of the genus Typhlodromus in Iran.

Keywords

predatory mite

Anthoseius

Typhlodromus

new record

Iran