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Issue: Vol. 2783 No. 1: 4 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2783.1.2
Page range: 21–34
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from southern Iran, with description of one new genus and three new species

Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro
Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Department of Biology, Professor. Hesabi institute of Manoojan, Manoojan, Iran
Acari water mites taxonomy Palaearctic Oriental Iran

Abstract

This paper deals with a collection of epigean water mites from southern Iran. One new genus, Iranobates, and three new species are described: Iranobates hesabii, Arrenurus iranicus and A. kermanensis. The following species are reported for the first time for Iran: Limnesia pinguipalpis Cook, 1967, Atractides omanensis Smit & Pešić, 2010, Neumania indentata Smit & Pešić 2010, and N. maharashtris Cook, 1967.

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