Raphignathoid mite fauna of fields and orchards of Marand (Northwestern Iran)with two new records from Iran and six new records for East Azerbaijanprovince

Navaei-Bonab, Reza; Bagheri, Mohammad

doi:10.22073/pja.v1i2.9931

Raphignathoid mite fauna of fields and orchards of Marand (Northwestern Iran)with two new records from Iran and six new records for East Azerbaijanprovince

Authors

Reza Navaei-Bonab ¹

Mohammad Bagheri ²

¹ Young Researchers Club, Marand Branch, Islamic Azad University, East Azerbaijan province, Iran;

² Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran;

10.22073/pja.v1i2.9931

Abstract

A study of the raphignathoid mite fauna of fields and orchards in Marand,Northwestern Iran, revealed two new species for the mite fauna of Iran, namely:
Eustigmaeus ioaniensis Kapaxidi & Papadoulis, 1999 and Agistemus industani Gonzalez-Roodrigez, 1965 and six species for mites new for the fauna of East
Azerbaijan province and eight species new for the mite fauna of Marand.Stigmaeidae with 13 species and Barbutiidae and Camerobiidae with one species
each had the highest and the lowest number of identified species, respectively. A key to the Iranian families and genera of Raphignathoidea are included.

Keywords

Acari

new records

Iran

Raphignathoidea

Marand

fields and orchards