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A New Species of Chigger Mite (Acariformes: Trombiculidae: Leeuwenhoekiinae) Collected From a Scorpion in Iran Publisher



Stekolnikov AA1 ; Mohammadi Bavani M2 ; Rafinejad J3 ; Saboori A4
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  1. 1. Laboratory of Parasitic Arthropods, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
  2. 2. Department of Medical Entomology and Vector control, School of Public Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Medical Entomology and Vector control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Source: International Journal of Acarology Published:2019


Abstract

A new species of chigger mite, Odontacarus scorpionivorus Stekolnikov and Saboori sp. nov., is described from a scorpion Mesobuthus eupeus (Koch) in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It is the tenth known case of a chigger parasitizing an arthropod. The new species is similar to Odontacarus paradoxus (Andre) described from a scorpion host in Greece and to a group of Odontacarus species from Transcaucasia, Middle Asia, and China. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DE9359A1-F0E8-47AA-B2C4-3708D1C1B73F. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.