Report of three species of aquatic mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Iran

Subject Areas : entomology and othea arthropods

A. Dinipour ¹ , R. Vafaei Shoushtari ² , A. Saboori ³ , V. Pesic ⁴

1 - Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran
2 - Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran
3 - Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
4 - Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro

Received: 2009-12-08 Accepted : 2010-05-04 Published : 2013-11-22

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Abstract :

During 2006, in the course of faunistical survey of water mites of Guilan Province, Eylais degenerata Koenike, 1897, Aturus intermedius Protz, 1900 and Arrenurus walkanoffi K.Viets, 1926 (Acari, Hydrachnidia) as three new species of aquatic mites for Iran fauna were collected and identified.