| Two new records of the family Achipteriidae (Acari, Oribatida) for mite’s fauna of Iran |
| Paper ID : 1094-3IICE (R1) |
| Authors: |
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Maryam Rahgozar *1, karim haddad Irani-Nejad2, Alireza Saboori3, Mohamad-reza Zargaran4 1Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran 21- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran 3Plant Protection dept., Tehran Univ 4Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Urmia, Iran |
| Abstract: |
| Oribatid mites are primarily terrestrial and often dominant microarthropods in litter, soil, and canopy. The family Achipteriidae Thor, 1929 contains seven genera, four subgenera, 90 species and five subspecies in the world. Achipteriid mites are saprophages and mycophages that apparently feed opportunistically on available resources of fungi, algae and decaying plant material. This family is known from the Holarctic, Oriental and Neotropical regions with most species described from the North and Central America, Europe and East Asia. Adults of this family have the following characters: prodorsum with lamellae, adjacent or fused medially; lamellar cusps, tutorium, translamella well-developed; notogaster with immovable pteromorphs, which bears knife-like humeral process or not; 10 pairs of notogastral setae or alveoli; octotaxic system developed as porose areas or saccules, pedotectum I large, extending to base of bothridium, pedotectum II small; anogenital setation: 6-1-2-3; genu IV often concave dorsally, subequal in length or longer than tibia IV. To date, Anachipteria deficiens Grandjean, 1932, Campachipteria petiti (Trave, 1960), Parachipteria sp. and Achipteria coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) have been reported from Iran. In order to study achipteriid fauna of East Azerbaijan province, soil samples were taken from five different regions monthlyduring May to October in 2015. Mites were extracted using Berlese funnels. Specimens were cleared in Nesbitt’s fluid and mounted in Hoyer's medium on microscope slides. Slides were kept in an oven at 45 °C for 3-4 weeks. In this study, three species collected and identified, of which two species were new records for Iran (marked with two asterisks) and one genus, one subgenus and one species were new records for East Azerbaijan province (marked with one asterisk). The list of species is as follows: Achipteria* (Achipteria*) nitens** (Nicolet, 1855), Parachipteria punctata** (Nicolet, 1855) and A. (A.) coleoptrata* (Linnaeus, 1758). Specimens are deposited in the Acarology Laboratory, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. |
| Keywords: |
| Acariformes, Achipteria nitens, A. coleoptrata, Parachipteria punctata, Sarcoptiformes, Iran. |
| Status : Paper Accepted (Poster Presentation) |
