New insect host records for mites of the family Microdispidae (Acari: Heterostigmatina), with description of a new species of the genus Paramicrodispus

Abstract

The mite Paramicrodispus scarabidophilus Hajiqanbar and Rahiminejad sp. nov. (Acari: Prostigmata: Microdispidae) is described and illustrated based on phoretic females recovered from Oryctes nasicornis L. (Col.: Scarabaeidae) hosts, which were collected from forests in northern Iran. It is the first record of the genus Paramicrodispus for the mite fauna of Iran. We also found Paramicrodispus crenulatus (Savulkina, 1978) associated with Lucanus ibericus Motschulsky (Col.: Lucanidae), the first report of association between beetles of the family Lucanidae and the mite family Microdispidae. Moreover, for the first time we report an association between beetles of the family Scarabaeidae and Paramicrodispus mites.

Two new species of the genusPremicrodispus(Acari: Microdispidae) associated with beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Tenebrionidae), with a key to Palaearctic species of the genus

“…Hitherto, the subgenus Premicrodispus (Premicrodispus) included 20 described species in the Palaearctic region (Khaustov , 2009Khaustov and Chydyrov 2010). Mites of this family have been found on beetles of the families Carabidae, Scarabaeidae and Lucanidae (Hajiqanbar et al 2012) but this study reports, for the first time, these mites on beetles of the family Tenebrionidae.…”

New records of heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Heterostimatina) from dry rice cultivation of Gorgan, northern Iran

“…Ukraine (Crimea)beneath elytra of a carabid beetle Pterostichus niger (Schaller, 1783), in a rotten log of Fagus orientalis (Khaustov, 2009). Iran-in association with Lucanus ibericus Motschulsky, 1845 (Col.: Lucanidae) (Hajiqanbar et al, 2012).…”

Three new species of the genus Caesarodispus (Acari: Microdispidae) associated with ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to species

“…On the other hand, some genera have a wider host range: for example, the genus Paramicrodispus Khaustov, has been found on centipedes of the family Scolopendridae and beetles of the families Carabidae, Scarabaeidae and Lucanidae (Khaustov ; Hajiqanbar et al . ).…”