Executive Summary Ticks and mites (subphylum Chelicerata: class Acari) transmit a greater variety of human and animal pathogens than any other arthropod vector. Tickand mite-borne diseases are global health problems caused by a variety of bacterial, viral and protozoan pathogens, which are responsible for significant morbidity and thousands of human deaths annually. The incidence of many tick-b...

during 2005-2006, in the course of a survey of oribatid mites in arak region, markazi province, zetomotrichus (zetomotrichus) lacrimans grandjean, 1934 was collected and identified. this is the second genus and species of the family zetomotrichidae (acari, oribatida) being reported from iran.

Adult Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks collected near Ljubljana, Slovenia, were tested for the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE) by using PCR assays based on the 16S rRNA gene. Three (3.2%) of 93 ticks were found to contain granulocytic ehrlichiae. Nucleotide sequences of portions of the bacterial groESL heat shock operon amplified from these ticks were identical or nearly (9...

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Two new species of Silphitrombium Fain, 1992 (Acari: Prostigmata: Neothrombiidae), ectoparasites of beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera), are described from Sistan and Baluchestan Province, eastern Iran: S. elateridum sp. nov. on Heteroderes heideni Reitter, 1891 (Col.: Elateridae) and S. iranicum sp. nov. on Opatroides punctulatus Brullé, 1832 (Col.: Tenebrionidae) and the genus Silphitrombium is red...