Aegyptobia beglarovi

Raissi Ardali, M., Hadizadeh, A., Mohammadi Sharif, M. & Khanjani, M., 2014, Tenuipalpid Mites From Northern Iran And Description Of The Male Of Cenopalpus Rubusi Khanjani 2012, Acarologia 54 (4), pp. 453-462 : 454

Aegyptobia beglarovi

Livschitz and Mitrofanov, 1967

Aegyptobia meyerae Khosrowshahi and Arbabi, 1997: 32 . Aegyptobia kharazii Mesa et al., 2009: 15 .

Distribution — worldwide especially: Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, United Arab Emirates and USA.

Specimens examined and associations — Sari (Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University Campus): 36°39’N, 53°04’E, - 10 m a.s.l. (Meters above sea level), 20 Feb. 2011 – 19 ♀♀ on Thuja orientalis L. (Cupressaceae) .

Previous records from Iran — Tehran, Tehran province (Khosrowshahi and Arbabi, 1997); Mazandaran and Khuzestan Provinces ( Kamali et al., 2001); Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan province (Sadeghi Namaghi, 2010); Khabr, Kerman Province ( Khanjani et al., 2013a); Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province ( Khanjani et al., 2012a).

Comments — This species was described as Aegyptobia meyerae Khosrowshahi and Arbabi, 1997 which had been preoccupied by the species described by Hatzinikolis and Panou, 1996. Therefore it was changed into A. kharazii ( Mesa et al., 2009) and recently A. kharazii was considered as a junior synonym of A. beglarovi ( Khanjani et al., 2012a) . The host plant T. orientalis is a new record ( Mesa et al., 2009).