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Issue: Vol. 1354 No. 1: 9 Nov. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-11-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1354.1.4
Page range: 57–61
Abstract views: 79
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Stigmaeus Koch (Acari: Stigmaeidae) from Northwest of Iran

Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bu-Ali Sina, Hamadan, Iran
Department of Agricultural Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Acari Stigmaeidae Stigmaeus new species Iran

Abstract

A new species of Stigmaeus Koch (Acari: Stigmaeidae), S. malekii Haddad, Bagheri & Khanjani, is described and illustrated from Northwestern (East Azarbaijan) Iran. The materials of new species were collected from apple litter. A key to the species of Stigmaeus found in Iran is given.

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