A new species of Olopachys Berlese (Acari: Pachylaelapidae) from Iran with a key to the world species

Abstract

A new species, Olopachys iraniensis n. sp. (Mesostigmata: Pachylaelapidae) is described based on adult females collected from soil in Guilan Province, northern Iran. Two identification keys are provided, one for all known species of Olopachys, and the other for species recorded from Iran. A brief review on pachylaelapid mites of Iran is also provided. Keywords Acari; Olopachys; Pachylaelapidae; new species; soil; Guilan Zoobank http://zoobank.org/7D80D390-FE33-46A5-B60C-D37C36D61A6D How to cite this article Mojahed S. et al. (2019), A new species of Olopachys Berlese (Acari: Pachylaelapidae) from Iran with a key to the world species.

Mites of the superfamily Eviphidoidea (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Damavand County with six new records to the fauna of Tehran Province, Iran

“…The Iranian known eviphidoid fauna contains almost 88 species belong to 32 genera, including Eviphididae (15 species and 12 genera), Macrochelidae (35 species and 9 genera), Pachylaelapidae (30 species belong to 5 genera), and Parholaspididae (almost 8 species belong to 6 genera). The eviphidoid fauna of Tehran Province contains 29 species belong to 13 genera (Kazemi, Rajaei, 2013;Nemati, Riahi, Khalili-Moghadam, Gwiazdowicz, 2018;Mašán, Mojahed, Hajizadeh, Hosseini, Ahadiyat, 2018;Moghimi, Ahadiyat, Kiadaliri, Karaca, 2019;Mojahed, Hajizadeh, Hosseini, Ahadiyat, 2019;Valizadeh, Ahadiyat, Bagheri, Joharchi, 2019;Ahadiyat, Ghasemi-Moghadam, Kermani, Joharchi, 2020;Hajizadeh, Hosseini, 2020). The aim of this study was to determine eviphidoid mites in soil and leaf-litter in Damavan County, Tehran Province, Iran…”