Redescription of two species of Oplitis Berlese (Acari, Mesostigmata, Oplitidae) from Iran

Esmaeil Babaeian; Alireza Saboori; Dariusz J Gwiazdowicz; Vahid Etemad

doi:10.3897/zookeys.610.9965

Redescription of two species of Oplitis Berlese (Acari, Mesostigmata, Oplitidae) from Iran

Zookeys. 2016 Aug 11:(610):13-22. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.610.9965. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Esmaeil Babaeian¹, Alireza Saboori¹, Dariusz J Gwiazdowicz², Vahid Etemad³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.
² Poznan University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, Wojska Polskiego 71c, 60-625 Poznań, Poland.
³ Department Forestry & Forest Economics, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.

Abstract

Two new species records of Oplitidae, Oplitis exopodi Hunter & Farrier, 1975 and Oplitis sarcinulus Hunter & Farrier, 1976 are redescribed based on Iranian specimens from leaf-litter forest in Mazandaran province, northern Iran. A key to the Iranian species of Oplitis is presented.

Keywords: Acari; Iran; Parasitiformes; Uropodina; new species; taxonomy.