Report of a species of the family Lardoglyphidae (Acari: Sarcoptiformes) from Iran

Subject Areas : Plant Protection

Kourosh  Keshtmand ¹ ()
Hadi  Ostovan ² ()
Rahil  Asadi ³ ()

Received: 2011-02-01 Accepted : 2011-05-26 Published : 2010-05-22

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During 2009, in the course of the faunistic survey of mites related to mushroom in Seidan region, Fars province, one species from the Lardoglyphidae was collected and identified as Lardoglyphus konoi Sasa & Asanuma. This species is newly recorded from Iran in mushroom growing compost.  

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