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

Abstract

Two new species of mites of the genus Premicrodispus Cross, 1965 (Acari: Microdispidae) are described and illustrated from northern Iran: Premicrodispus paramaevi Hosseininaveh and Hajiqanbar sp. nov. recovered from Lucanus ibericus (Col.: Lucanidae) and Premicrodispus spinosus Hosseininaveh and Hajiqanbar sp. nov. from Corticeus unicolor (Col.: Tenebrionidae). It is the first phoretic record of the microdispid mites on beetles of the family Tenebrionidae. A key to Palaearctic species of the genus Premicrodispus is provided.

New records of soil dwelling mites of the superfamily Pygmephoroidea (Acari: Heterostimatina) from northern Iran

“…montanus for arthropods fauna of Iran. (Sevastianov & Al Douri, 1988) Distribution and habitat: This species recorded from Ukraine and Russia in soil samples (Khaustov, 2006), and also from Iran in association with Oryctes nasicornis L. (Col.: Scarabaeidae) (Hosseininaveh et al, 2013) and soil (Present study).…”

Two new species of microdispid mites (Acari: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoroidea) associated with Lucanus ibericus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)

“…The taxonomic placement of many microdispid mites was as doubtful, hereupon, Khaustov (2018) provided a key for genera. There are various reports about microdispid mites in Iran (Rahiminejad et al 2010(Rahiminejad et al , 2015aHajiqanbar et al 2012a, b;Hosseininaveh et al 2013Hosseininaveh et al , 2015Loghmani et al 2014a, b;Katlav et al 2015;Hajiqanbar and Hasseininaveh 2014;Filekesh et al 2014;Abbasi-Moghadam et al 2014;Badoodam et al 2015;Azhari et al 2018;Hajiqanbar and Arjomandi 2019;Rahiminejad and Hajiqanbar 2020). Until now, six genera and 23 species have been recorded from Iran (Hajiqanbar and Sobhi 2018).…”