Pavania gymnopleuri Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2010

Sobhi, Mohammad, Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza & Mortazavi, Azim, 2017, New species and records of heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Heterostigmata) phoretic on scarabaeid dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from northwestern Iran, Zootaxa 4276 (3), pp. 427-434 : 431

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.3.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:58D2FF44-1C01-42EA-9545-F1FC3D860881

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6051985

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03984C68-BB56-F573-E8A1-FBBCBE6E9066

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Plazi

scientific name

Pavania gymnopleuri Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2010
status

 

Pavania gymnopleuri Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2010

This species was described from northeastern Iran, Razawi Khorasan province, phoretic on Gymnopleurus mopsus persianus Reitter ( Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae ) ( Hajiqanbar & Khaustov 2010). Badoodam (2014) reported it from northern Iran, Golestane province , phoretic on Onthophagus sp. and Gymnopleurus mopsus Pallas (Col.: Scarabaeidae ).

Material examined. One colony including more than 50 females, Iran, Northwestern Iran , Ardabil province, Meshgin-shahr , Garachi Olia village , 38.41°N, 47.59°E, under the metanotum of Gymnopleurus flagellates (Fabricius) ( Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae ) collected in dung pads of cow, 22 April 2016, coll. M. Sobhi. GoogleMaps

Remarks. Association between this mite and beetles Gymnopleurus flagellates is new.

Currently, of 21 species of the genus Pavania , 10 species are phoretic on the scarabaeid beetle genera Gymnopleurus , Onthophagus , Copris , Scarabaeus and Euoniticellus ( Cross 1965; Sevastianov 1980; Hajiqanbar & Khaustov 2010; Rahiminejad et al. 2011; Loghmani et al. 2013; Bahramian et al. 2015; current study). These mites can be identified using the following key.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Actinedida

Family

Dolichocybidae

Genus

Pavania

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