Description of a new species of Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from northern Iran, supplementary information on G. deinos (Zeman) and redescription of G. schusteri (Hirschmann)

Shahrooz Kazemi; Saeid Paktinat-Saeij; Sepideh Saberi

doi:10.11158/saa.25.11.4

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23 October 2020 Description of a new species of Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from northern Iran, supplementary information on G. deinos (Zeman) and redescription of G. schusteri (Hirschmann)

Shahrooz Kazemi, Saeid Paktinat-Saeij, Sepideh Saberi

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Systematic and Applied Acarology, 25(11):1969-1987 (2020). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.25.11.4

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A new species of the laelapid mite genus Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till, G. tuberculatussp. nov., is described from female specimens collected in soil and rotten leaves under citrus trees in Mazandaran province, northern Iran. Supplementary information on G. deinos (Zeman) is presented. Gaeolaelaps schusteri (Hirschmann) is redescribed based on the type specimens as well as additional specimens collected from the littoral zone of mangrove forests in Qeshm Island, in the eastern part of the Persian Gulf, southern Iran.

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Shahrooz Kazemi, Saeid Paktinat-Saeij, and Sepideh Saberi "Description of a new species of Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from northern Iran, supplementary information on G. deinos (Zeman) and redescription of G. schusteri (Hirschmann)," Systematic and Applied Acarology 25(11), 1969-1987, (23 October 2020). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.25.11.4

Received: 5 June 2020; Accepted: 11 September 2020; Published: 23 October 2020

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