Volume & Issue: Volume 15, Issue 4 - Serial Number 59, Autumn 2026 
Acarology-Taxonomy/Systematics/Biodiversity/Phylogeny/Molecular Taxonomy and Systematics

Description of a new species of Pteridopus (Trombidiformes: Chyzeriidae) from southeastern Iran

Article ID:150402

https://doi.org/10.22073/pja.150402

Malihe Haddadi, sara Ramroodi, Javad Noei, Ehsan Rakhshani

Abstract A new species of the genus Pteridopus Newell & Vercammen-Grandjean, 1964, P. bonjarensis Haddadi & Noei sp. nov., from Zabol and Bonjar counties, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran is described and illustrated. It represents the fifth known larval species of this genus worldwide and the third recorded from Iran. An updated key to the world species of the genus is also presented.