The first report of the genus Cercoleipus and family Cercomegistidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Iran

Subject Areas : Plant Protection

Hadi  Ostovan ¹ ()
Majid  Miri ² ()
Gholamreza  Beyzavi ³ ()

Received: 2011-11-02 Accepted : 2011-12-04 Published : 2010-11-22

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During 2000-2002, a faunistic study was carried out on mites associated with pine bark beetles in various parks of Tehran. A new species of the genus Cercoleipus Kinn, 1970belonging to family Cercomegistidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) was collected and identified. Record of this family and genus is new to the mites' fauna of Iran. Presence of Cercoleipus in Iran, the first record of this mite in Asia, is reported from Orthotomicus erosus (Wollaston) and Ips mannsfeldi (Wachtl) (Coleoptera:Scolytidae) in parks of Tehran on Pinus eldarica Medw.

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