Description of a new species of Stigmaeus (Acari: Stigmaeidae) with notes on species described from Northwest Iran

Mojtaba Mohammad-Doustaresharaf; Mohammad Bagheri; Parisa Lotfollahi

doi:10.11158/saa.28.2.3

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1 February 2023 Description of a new species of Stigmaeus (Acari: Stigmaeidae) with notes on species described from Northwest Iran

Mojtaba Mohammad-Doustaresharaf, Mohammad Bagheri, Parisa Lotfollahi

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Systematic and Applied Acarology, 28(2):185-194 (2023). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.28.2.3

Abstract

During a study of predatory mites in Urmia, Northwestern Iran, the female and male of a new species, Stigmaeus dokeri sp. nov. (Acari: Stigmaeidae), were collected from soil under oak trees. The specimens of the following species, S. malekii Haddad Irani-Nejad, Bagheri & Khanjani, 2006, S. boshroyehensis Khanjani, Izadi, Asali-Fayaz, Raisi, Rostami & Doğan, 2010, S. miandoabiensis Bagheri & Zarei, 2012 and S. marandiensis Bagheri & Ueckermann, 2011, were re-examined. We propose that S. boshroyehensis syn. nov. is a junior synonym of S. malekii. We also found S. miandoabiensis and S. marandiensis having bifurcate terminal eupathidium on palptarsus instead of tridentate in the original descriptions.

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Mojtaba Mohammad-Doustaresharaf, Mohammad Bagheri, and Parisa Lotfollahi "Description of a new species of Stigmaeus (Acari: Stigmaeidae) with notes on species described from Northwest Iran," Systematic and Applied Acarology 28(2), 185-194, (1 February 2023). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.28.2.3

Received: 6 September 2022; Accepted: 3 December 2022; Published: 1 February 2023

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