Taxonomic study of some biodiversity characteristics of the soil Laelapid mites in different habitats of Shahrood region-Iran

Subject Areas : Plant Pests

Parisa Qurani ¹ , Massoud Hakimi Tabar ² , Omid Joharchi ³ , Hamed Ghobari ⁴

1 - Former MSc. student , Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.
2 - professor, Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.
3 - Associated professor, Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.
4 - Assistant professor, College of Agriculture, Kordestan University, Kordestan, Iran.

Received: 2017-01-14 Accepted : 2017-04-15 Published : 2017-05-22

Keywords: Biodiversity, Forest, Simpson index, Field, Margalef index, Shanon index,

Abstract :

This study is based on survey on soil inhabiting Laelapidae that was carried out in year 2015 in different habitats of Shahrood region. In this study, 19 species belonging 10 genera and 3 subfamilies were collected and identified and determine some characteristics of biodiversity. According to results of Laelaspisella berlesi (45) was the most abundant and Gaeolaelaps kargi, Gaeolaelaps angusta and Pseudoparasitus hajiganbari (0/46) were the least abundant. The highest Margalef index and Shannon-Wiener’s diversity index were calculated for forest and Simpson index were calculated for Bastam.