Fauna of pycnonotic oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in south of East Azarbaijan province, and additional description of Licnodamaeus inaequalis based on the materials collected from the region

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1 Department of Plant Protection; College of Agriculture University of Maragheh Maragheh, Iran.

2 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran

3 Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

Fauna of pycnonotic oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in Eest Azerbaijan province was studied during 2014–2016. In this survey, 27 species belonging to 25 genera, 19 families and 13 superfamilies were collected and identified, of which the species Hypocepheus mirabilis Krivolutsky, 1971; Oppiella (Oppiella) nova palustris Laskova, 1980 and Suctobelbella (Suctobelbella) acutidens sarekensis (Forsslund, 1941)are recorded for the first time from Iran. Also an additional description is provided for Licnodamaeus inaequalis (Balogh & Mahunka, 1965) based on specimens collected from the East Azerbaijan province. Moreover, a checklist and an identification key of 27 pycnonotic oribatid mite species collected in this survey, is presented.

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