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1 April 2015 A new species of Paraneognathus from Iran and re-description of Eustigmaeus plumifer (Acari: Trombidiformes: Caligonellidae, Stigmaeidae)
Mohammad Bagheri, Saeed Paktinat-Saeej, Alireza Saboori, Mansoureh Ahaniazad
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Abstract

A new species of Paraneognathus, P. iranicus sp. nov. is described based on females and a deutonymph collected from soil and leaf litter under citrus trees in Mazandaran province. A key to all known species of the genus Paraneognathus is provided. Also Eustigmaeus plumifer (Halbert, 1923) collected from soil of apple orchards in East Azerbaijan province, is re-described.

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Mohammad Bagheri, Saeed Paktinat-Saeej, Alireza Saboori, and Mansoureh Ahaniazad "A new species of Paraneognathus from Iran and re-description of Eustigmaeus plumifer (Acari: Trombidiformes: Caligonellidae, Stigmaeidae)," Systematic and Applied Acarology 20(3), 329-338, (1 April 2015). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.20.3.10
Received: 23 October 2014; Accepted: 1 December 2014; Published: 1 April 2015
KEYWORDS
predatory mites
Prostigmata
Raphignathoidea
taxonomy
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