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Paramicrodispus crenulatus

Description

Paramicrodispus crenulatus (Savulkina, 1978)

Material examined – 5♀, Mazandaran province, Noor Forest, 17 May 2016, under elytra of Gnorimus subcostatus (Mentries) (Col.: Scarabaeidae), collected from rotten logs; 4♀, Mazandaran Province, vicinity of Behshahr, 17 July 2016, under elytra of Parandra caspia Ménétriès, 1832 (Col.: Cerambycidae).

World distribution – Bulgaria, in the nest of a small mammal (Savulkina 1978); Crimea, beneath elytra of a carabid beetle Pterostichus niger (Schaller) and in a rotten log of Fagus orientalis (Khaustov 2009). Iran, Gorgan province, phoretic on Oryctes nasicornis L. (Col.: Scarabaeidae) (Hajiqanbar et al. 2012); Mazandaran province (current study).

Remarks – This is the first report of the relationship between mites of family Microdispidae and beetles of the family Cerambycidae. Also, Gnorimus subcostatus is new host record for the mite Paramicrodispus crenulatus.

Notes

Published as part of Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza & Arjomandi, Elham, 2019, Heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata) associated with Coleoptera and Hymenoptera in Mazandaran province, northern Iran, pp. 343-352 in Persian Journal of Acarology 8 (4) on page 345, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v8i4.56685, http://zenodo.org/record/7173876

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References

  • Savulkina, M. M. (1978) Neue Pygmephoriden-Arten (Trombidiformes, Pygmephoridae) aus Nagernestern von Bulgarien und der Sowjetunion. Parasitologica Hungarica, 11: 127 - 140.
  • Khaustov, A. A. (2009) A new genus and three new species of the mite family Microdispidae (Acari: Heterostigmata) from Crimea. Acarina, 17: 65 - 73.
  • Hajiqanbar, H., Rahiminejad, V. & Fathipour, Y. (2012) New insect host records for mites of the family Microdispidae (Acari: Heterostigmatina), with description of a new species of the genus Paramicrodispus. Entomological Science, 15: 309 - 313. http: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1479 - 8298.2012.00515. x