Glyptholaspis confusa ( Foà, 1900 )

Farahi, Sara, Shishehbor, Parviz & Nemati, Alireza, 2018, Some mesostigmatic mites (Acari: Parasitiformes) of Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 7 (4), pp. 323-344 : 329

Glyptholaspis confusa ( Foà, 1900)

Holostaspis confusa – Foà (1900): 137.

Glyptholaspis confuse – Hyatt and Emberson (1988): 116.

Distribution and habitats in Iran Provinces of Fars (putrid onion, manure, soil and leaf-litter), Tehran (soil, leaf-litter, decomposing organic matter, manure, unknown scarab beetles), Mazandaran (soil), Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari (dung), Golestan ( Euonthophagus gibbosus (Scriba) , soil, cow and sheep manure), Khorasan-e Shomali (manures, soil of farms and gardens), Golestan ( Polyphylla olivieri Laporte de Castelnau ) ( Kazemi and Rajaei 2013) and Qom (soil, dung, compost and plant litters of crops, lawns, shrubs and trees in farms, forests, orchards and parks) ( Nemati et al. 2018). This is new to the Khuzestan province fauna.

Material examined Four females, two males, Bavi, Mollasani, 31° 35' 31" N, 48° 53' 10" E, 27 m a.s.l., 14 May 2015 (cow manure), six females, 21 July 2015 (cow manure), eight females, three males, 19 September 2015 (buffalo manure), five females, 12 April 2017 (sheep manure); nine females, one males, Ahvaz, dairy farm at Shahid Chamran University campus, 32° 17' 59" N, 48° 39' 39" E, 15 m a.s.l., 26 May 2015 (cow manure); eight females, Bavi, Shajaraat, 31° 30' 40" N, 48° 54' 27" E, 22 m a.s.l., 8 June 2015 (buffalo manure); eight females, Hamidieh, 31° 28' 39" N, 48° 26' 44" E, 29 m a.s.l., 5 November 2015 (poultry manure); eight females, Hamidieh, Gambue, 31° 23' 59" N, 48° 31' 21" E, 16 m a.s.l., 30 November 2015 (cow manure); two females, Hamidieh, Gambue, 31° 23' 59" N, 48° 31' 21" E, 16 m a.s.l., 12 December 2015 (sheep manure); four females, three males, Hamidieh, Pich-e Seyyed Jaber, 31° 27' 34" N, 48° 25' 26" E, 21 m a.s.l., 10 March 2016 (cow manure); six females, Ahvaz, Alhaei, 31° 39' 20" N, 48° 35' 26" E, 31 m a.s.l., 29 April 2016 (cow manure); six females, four males, Shush, Seyyed Abbas, 31° 49' 49" N, 48° 23' 21" E, 40 m a.s.l., 6 May 2016 (buffalo manure); six females, Bavi, Naddafieh, 31°36'20" N, 48°52'59" E, 27m, 19 November 2016 (cow manure), seven females, 2 June 2017 (sheep manure); eleven females, two males, Ahvaz, Nabi-ye Akram village , 31° 26' 15" N, 48° 45' 11" E, 18 m a.s.l., 3 March 2017 (cow manure); five females, three males, Bavi, Veys, 31° 28' 56" N, 48° 52' 41" E, 24 m a.s.l., 28 April 2017 (cow manure); ten females, two males, Ahvaz, Haatam village, 31° 51' 35" N, 48° 21' 31.05" E, 36m, 11 May 2017 (sheep manure) .

Note– Characters of the Iranian specimens agreed with data presented in Hyatt and Emberson (1988).