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Caesarodispus minutus

Description

Caesarodispus minutus (Sevastianov, 1981)

Microdispus minutus Sevastianov, 1981, p. 29, Fig. 5.

Caesarodispus minutus: Khaustov 2008: 390.

Material examined – This species was collected directly from nest of ants in Gooshe Olia village, vicinity of Meshguin shahr, Ardabil province, northwestern Iran, 38° 26' 24.0" N 47° 33' 36.0" E. Four females were removed from a vial containing more than 20 ants of Tetramorium sp., 12 May 2016, leg. M. Sobhi.

Distribution – Ukraine, described originally by Sevastianov (1981) associated with ant Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus, 1758); Russia (Siberia), from Lasius flavus (Fabricius, 1782) (Khaustov and Tolstikov 2016); Iran, from Temnothorax sp. (Loghmani et al. 2014b) and associated with Tetramorium sp. (current study).

Notes

Published as part of Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza & Sobhi, Mohammad, 2018, New records of the microdispid mites (Acari: Heterostigmata: Microdispidae) associated with ants with a review of the family in Iran, pp. 105-113 in Persian Journal of Acarology 7 (2) on page 107, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v7i2.35131, http://zenodo.org/record/4634156

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2016-05-12
Family
Microdispidae
Genus
Caesarodispus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Actinedida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Sevastianov
Species
minutus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2016-05-12
Taxonomic concept label
Caesarodispus minutus (Sevastianov, 1981) sec. Hajiqanbar & Sobhi, 2018

References

  • Sevastianov, V. D. (1981) New species of mites of the family Pygmephoridae (Tarsonemina, Trombidiformes). Vestnik Zoologii, 6: 25 - 29 (In Russian).
  • Khaustov, A. A. & Tolstikov A. V. (2016) The diversity, mite communities, and host specificity of pygmephoroid mites (Acari: Pygmephoroidea) associated with ants in Western Siberia, Russia. Acarina, 24 (2): 113 - 136. http: // doi. org / 10.21684 / 0132 - 8077 - 2016 - 24 - 2 - 113 - 136
  • Loghmani, A., Hajiqanbar, H. & Talebi, A. A. (2014 b) New species and new record of the genus Caesarodispus (Acari: Heterostigmatina: Microdispidae) phoretic on Temnothorax sp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici, 64: 273 - 278. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3161 / 000345414 X 680627