Pediculaster camerikae Khaustov, 2008

Rahiminejad, Vahid & Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza, 2020, New records of mites of the Heterostigmata (Acari: Prostigmata) associated with insects from Golestan Province, northern Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (3), pp. 233-242 : 236

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https://doi.org/10.22073/pja.v9i3.61223

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4644970

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scientific name

Pediculaster camerikae Khaustov, 2008
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Pediculaster camerikae Khaustov, 2008

World distribution – Crimea, in cow dung ( Khaustov 2008a); Western Siberia, in cow dung ( Khaustov 2020).

Material examined – One mite colony including 21 specimens attached to ventral body surface of Helina sp. ( Diptera : Muscidae ) was found. The hosts captured by a light trap in shore of Caspian Sea, Bandar-E-Turkmen, 30 May 2014.

Remarks – This species is recorded from Iran for the first time. Also, it is the first record of phoresy for this mite.

Khaustov, A. A. (2008 a) A new mite genus of the family Pygmephoridae (Acari, Heterostigmata) from Russia. Entomological Review, 88: 491 - 496.

Khaustov, A. A. (2020) Three new species and new records of Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia. Acarologia, 60 (2): 317 - 337.