in the course of a faunistic survey on the iranian oribatid mites (acari: oribatida) in the southeastern province of sistan and balouchestan, the species bicyrthermannia duodentata hammer, 1979 of the family nanhermanniidae was identified. this species is a new record for the palaearctic region.

Fungivorous mites and other acari associated with mushroom colonies are known since the beginning of acarology. Most them tiny difficult or impossible to see naked eye. myceliophagous (Behan & Hill, 1978; Renker et al., 2005; Werner 2018). Large visible unaided on stems, caps, gills fleshy fruiting bodies life wild mushrooms have been widely observed by naturalists but rarely documented in ...

The occurrence of Paraneognathus wangae (Fan & Li) (Acari: Caligonellidae) was reported for the first time in Turkey. This predatory species found associated with stored wheat and collected from south-eastern part Anatolia. Measurements female male are provided along their taxonomic characteristics illustrations. is also report on genus 2000) Raphignathus gracilis Rack Raphignathidae) during th...

1. Halliday RB, OConnor BM, Baker AS. “Global Diversity of Mites”. In Peter H. Raven and Tania Williams. Nature and human society: The quest for a sustainable world: Proceedings of the 1997 Forum on Biodiversity. Washington DC: National Academies; 2000. p. 192-212. 2. Ralph GP. Effects of the haematophagous mite Ornithonyssus bursa on nestling starlings in New Zealand. New Zealand J Zool 1977;4...

Three new species of the genus Stigmaeus Koch, 1836 (Acari: Stigmaeidae) are described from various habitats in Crimea: Stigmaeus kuznetsovi sp. nov. from nests of Microtus socialis (Rodentia: Cricetidae); S. mitrofanovi sp. nov. from galleries of Pityogenes bistridentatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) under the bark of Pinus pallasiana, and S. silvestris sp. nov. from rotten log of Pinus pallasi...

A new species of the genus Eustigmaeus Berlese, 1910 (Acari: Stigmaeidae), E. tjumeniensis sp. nov. is described from mosses of fens in Western Siberia, Russia. Eutigmaeus collarti (Cooreman, 1955), E. ioanninensis Kapaxidi and Papadoulis, 1999, E. jiangxiensis Hu, Chen and Huang, 1996 are recorded from Russia for the first time. Eustigmaeus parvisetus (Chaudhri, 1965) is recorded from Eurasia ...

A new species of Eriophyidae (Acari: Prostigmata: E riophyoidea) mite, Aceria tripuraensis n. sp., is described from the closed bud galls of Hibiscus macrophyllus Roxb. ex Hornem. (Malvaceae) in India. Aceria tripuraensis n. sp. is distinguished by having a prodorsal shield with distinct rounded lobes on the postero-lateral margins and two pairs of submedian lines. The tarsal solenidia with unu...

In this study, four water mites of the genus Brachypoda (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Aturidae) are reported from South Korea and the Far East of Russia. Brachypoda (Ocybrachypoda) milicaae sp. n. (South Korea), B. (Ocybrachypoda) sokolowi sp. n. (Russia) and B. (Eubrachypoda) rossica sp. n. (Russia) are described as new for science. The latter species is the second representative of the subgenus Eubra...

NEW RECORDS OF PONTARACHNID MITES (ACARI Hydrachnidia) from the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico are presented. Litarachna lopezae sp. n., from substrata collected from Bajo de Sico, a mesophotic coral reef ecosystem in Mona Passage off Puerto Rico, is described as new to science. The new species was collected from nearly 70 m depth, the greatest depth from which pontarachnid mites have been fou...

Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) and fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) were recovered from 8 smoky shrews, Sorex fumeus Miller, and 9 northern short-tailed shrews, Blarina brevicauda (Say), trapped at elevations of 720-1,310 m in Macon and Jackson counties in western North Carolina and Union County in northern Georgia from April 1994 to August 1995. The ticks Ixodes angustus Neumann and Ixodes woodi Bishopp...