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Title Description of a new species of Stigmaeus (Acari: Stigmaeidae) with notes on species described from Northwest Iran
Type JournalPaper
Keywords Prostigmata, mites, systematics, junior synonym, Urm
Abstract During a study of predatory mites in Urmia, Northwestern Iran, the female and male of a new species, Stigmaeus dokeri sp. nov. (Acari: Stigmaeidae), were collected from soil under oak trees. The specimens of the following species, S. malekii Haddad Irani-Nejad, Bagheri & Khanjani, 2006, S. boshroyehensis Khanjani, Izadi, Asali- Fayaz, Raisi, Rostami & Doğan, 2010, S. miandoabiensis Bagheri & Zarei, 2012 and S. marandiensis Bagheri & Ueckermann, 2011, were re-examined. We propose that S. boshroyehensis syn. nov. is a junior synonym of S. malekii. We also found S. miandoabiensis and S. marandiensis having bifurcate terminal eupathidium on palptarsus instead of tridentate in the original descriptions.
Researchers Parisa Lotfollahi (Third Researcher), Mohammad Bagheri (Second Researcher), Mojtaba Mohammad Doustaresharaf (First Researcher)