During the investigations of soil mites Soğucak Plateau, three species belonging to families Oribotritiidae, Neoliodidae, and Collohmanniidae (Acari: Oribatida) were found. Oribotritia (O.) krivolutskyi Liu, Niedbała, Starý, 2011 is secondly recorded throughout world. SEM images are also provided.

Amblyseius riodocei El-Banahwy, 1984 (Acari: Phytoseiidae) is rediscovery from material collected in Aracruz, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. A complementary description provided with measurements and illustrations the specimen.

mites of family erythraeidae are parasites in their larval stage and predators in their post-larval stages on a variety of arthropods, among which are important pest species. during 2011-2013, in a faunistic survey of mites associated with beetles of the family chrysomelidae in oil and gas company of gachsaranregion, iran. specimens were preserved in ag (alcohol 75%, glyserin 5%), cleared in la...

a faunestic study on stigmaeidae and cryptognathidae families in lorestan province was carried out during 2012-2013. in this study 18 species were collected and identified, of which favognathus amygdalus and f. cordylus (cryptognathidae) were new records for iranian fauna, also all of the collected species in this study were new records for fauna of lorestan province. stigmaeidae with 14 specie...

soil-dwelling mites and especially gamasina (mesostigmata) are very important to soil ecosystems. they are one of the major groups rich in species and abundance. in order to study mesostigmatic mite fauna, soil samples were collected from different oak forests of lordegan region. the mites were extracted using berlese-tullgren funnels and then cleared in lactic acid and mounted in hoyer's mediu...

Phoretic and non-phoretic females of Pediculaster nidicolus (Mahunka) (Acari: Pygmephoridae) are recorded from Russia for the first time. Mites were collected nest undetermined small mammal in Western Siberia, Russia. Non-phoretic female is redescribed, phoretic described An updated key to Palaearctic species provided.

A new species of quill mites Picobia dziabaszewskii sp. nov. (Acari, Syringophilidae) parasitizing Garrulax formosus (Verreaux) (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae) is described using combined data sources: standard morphological information extended by mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I sequence (COI) and domene D2 of the nuclear gene 28S rDNA data (DNA barcode). Additionally, the case of polymorph...

Forania (Acari: Parasitengona: Erythraeidae) is a poorly known genus parasitic on ants, recorded only twice and not since 1930. In the present work, we re-describe the only described species, Forania mentonensis (André). Some drawings and technical information of the types are published for the first time. A new specimen captured from the south of Spain is described as Forania sendrai sp. nov. ...