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Issue: Vol. 2738 No. 1: 12 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2738.1.4
Page range: 60–68
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

First Iranian species of Neosilphitrombium (Acari: Prostigmata: Neothrombiidae) with a key to world species

Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115-336, Tehran, Iran
Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Acari Neosilphitrombium tenebrionidum sp. nov. Tenebrionidae new host larva ectoparasite Parasitengona

Abstract

Neosilphitrombium tenebrionidum sp. nov. (Acari: Neothrombiidae) is described and illustrated from larvae ectoparasitic on Opatroides punctatus Brullé, 1832 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Mashhad and Gonabad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. It is the first report of the representatives of the genus Neosilphitrombium from Iran and the first record of the family Tenebrionidae as a host for the genus Neosilphitrombium. A key to world larval species of Neosilphitrombium is presented.

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