Heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata) associated with Coleoptera and Hymenoptera in Mazandaran province, northern Iran
Author
Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza
Author
Arjomandi, Elham
text
Persian Journal of Acarology
2019
2019-10-15
8
4
343
352
https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/af53d5b4-c6ff-35c3-a9c7-4d8aab39a146/
journal article
10.22073/pja.v8i4.56685
2251-8169
Scutacarus acarorum
(Goeze, 1780)
Material examined –
2♀
,
Mazandaran province
, Behshahr,
19 July 2017
, phoretic on
Bombus
sp.
(
Hymenoptera
:
Apidae
).
World distribution –
Holarctic, associated with various bumblebees or their nests (
Khaustov 2008
) and sometimes as hyperphoresy on deutonymphs of
Parasitellus
mites (
Mesostigmata
:
Parasitidae
) (
Schousboe 1986
).
Iran
,
Ardabil province
, associated with
Bombus argillaceus
(Scopoli) (
Kazemi and Kamali 2006
)
;
Mazandaran province
(current study).