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Issue: Vol. 3847 No. 4: 11 Aug. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-08-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.4.3
Page range: 533–544
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari:Laelapidae) from Iran 

Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, P.O. Box: 41635-1314, Iran.
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, P.O. Box: 41635-1314, Iran.
Department of Plant Protection, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.
taxonomy soil mites Mesostigmata Laelapidae Cosmolaelap Iran

Abstract

This paper reports on two species of mites of the genus Cosmolaelaps Berlese, 1903 in Iran—C. dorfakiensis sp. nov., and C. pinnatus sp. nov., extracted from soil and leaf litter samples in Guilan Province, Northern Iran. A key to the species of Cosmolaelaps occurring in the Iran is also provided.