Digamasellus punctum ( Berlese, 1904 )

Mohammadi, Leila & Hajizadeh, Jalil, 2024, Review of the family Digamasellidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) in Iran with three new records and a key to species, Persian Journal of Acarology 13 (3), pp. 375-393 : 380

Digamasellus punctum ( Berlese, 1904)

Cyrtolaelaps (Gamasellus) punctum — Berlese (1904): 262.

Gamasellus (Digamasellus) perpusillus — Berlese (1905): 234

Digamasellus punctum — Lindquist (1975): 13; Karg (1993): 346; Bernini et al. (1995): 20; Castilho (2012): 198; Hosseini et al. (2019): 397 .

Material examined – Rasht County, University of Guilan (37° 11' 44.5" N, 49° 38' 30.7" E), 12 September 2021, from manure, two females, one male and one deutonymph; University of Guilan (37° 11' 46.7" N, 49° 38' 17.9" E), 3 January 2022, from the mushroom growing on tree trunk, one female ; Sangar district (37° 09' 57.5" N, 49° 41' 21.1" E), 14 October 2021, from rice husks, nine females and one male ; Lasht-e Nesha District (37° 21' 57.7" N, 49° 51' 27.9" E), 15 November 2021, from rice husks, ten females ; Kolesh Taleshan village (37° 14' 57.4" N, 49° 31' 04.4" E), 22 November 2021, from Mushroom compost, one female ; Keshavarz Park (37° 16' 40.5" N, 49° 36' 23.6" E), 24 June 2022, from manure, two females ; Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh County (37° 19' 55.5" N, 49° 55' 57.0" E), 15 November 2021, from peanut shells, two females and one male ; Shaft County, Mashatuk villlage (37° 16' 46.6" N, 49° 28' 32.9" E), 22 November 2021, from horse manure, two females .