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Issue: Vol. 1030 No. 1: 8 Aug. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1030.1.2
Page range: 49–60
Abstract views: 64
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Water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from interstitial waters of Iran, with the description of one new species

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Crna Gora, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro
Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
Acari water mites taxonomy interstitial waters new species Iran

Abstract

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from interstitial waters of Iran are presented. Fourteen species are recorded, of which six are new for the studied area. Kongsbergia persica sp. nov. is described; the zoogeographical and ecological significance of these new records is discussed.

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