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Pediculaster camerikae Khaustov 2008

  • 1. . Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115 - 336, Tehran, Iran; E-mail: hajiqanbar @ modares. ac. ir &. Current address: Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Plant Production, Gorgan University of Agricultural Science and Natural Resource, Golestan, Iran.
  • 2. . Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115 - 336, Tehran, Iran; E-mail: hajiqanbar @ modares. ac. ir

Description

Pediculaster camerikae Khaustov, 2008

World distribution – Crimea, in cow dung (Khaustov 2008a); Western Siberia, in cow dung (Khaustov 2020).

Material examined – One mite colony including 21 specimens attached to ventral body surface of Helina sp. (Diptera: Muscidae) was found. The hosts captured by a light trap in shore of Caspian Sea, Bandar-E-Turkmen, 30 May 2014.

Remarks – This species is recorded from Iran for the first time. Also, it is the first record of phoresy for this mite.

Notes

Published as part of Rahiminejad, Vahid & Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza, 2020, New records of mites of the Heterostigmata (Acari: Prostigmata) associated with insects from Golestan Province, northern Iran, pp. 233-242 in Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (3) on page 236, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v9i3.61223, http://zenodo.org/record/4644986

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References

  • Khaustov, A. A. (2008 a) A new mite genus of the family Pygmephoridae (Acari, Heterostigmata) from Russia. Entomological Review, 88: 491 - 496.
  • Khaustov, A. A. (2020) Three new species and new records of Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia. Acarologia, 60 (2): 317 - 337.