مجله ایرانی کنه شناسی
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Genus Petrobia Murray, 1877 belongs to the family Tetranychidae, subfamily Bryobiinae Berlese and tribe Petrobiini Reck, 1952. Petrobia comprises three subgenera: Mesotetranychus Reck, 1948, Petrobia Murray, 1877 and Tetranychina Wainstein, 1960 (Mahdavi et al. 2018). By the year 2019, 80 species belonging to the family Tetranychidae have been recorded from Iran, among them four species including P. brevipes Reck & Bagdasarian, 1949; P. hordei Khanjani, Khanjani & Seeman, 2016; P. latens (Mü ller, 1776) and P. norbakhshi Khanjani, Khanjani & Seeman, 2016 belong to Petrobia (Petrobia) (Migeon and Dorkeld 2019). In this paper, we report the first record of P. (P. ) pseudotetranychina Auger & Flechtmann, 2009 (Trombidiformes: Tetranychoidea: Tetranychidae) from Asia collected on Salsola sp. (Amaranthaceae), which is also the second report of this species in the world. Moreover, this paper introduces two new host plants (Capparis spinosa Linnaeus and Cydonia oblonga Miller) for tetranychid mites from Iran. Capparis spinosa is also the first record for the world. To collect mite species, leaves and sheaths of Salsola sp. were collected in bags and taken to the laboratory. Mites were removed from infested plants by dipping-washing-filtering method (Boller 1984). This solution was filtered through a sieve (400 meshes) and then mites were washed with ethanol 70% into a Petri dish. They were mounted in Hoyer's medium. Specimens were examined using an Olympus BX 43 phase-contrast compound microscope.

Prostigmata is the larger of the two suborders of the order Trombidiformes within the mite superorder Acariformes (Walter et al. 2009). The prostigmatic mites are a large assemblage of morphologically, biologically and ecologically diverse groups comprising 36 superfamilies, some of which consist largely of predatory or parasitic species. Most members of the Bdelloidea and Raphignathoidea are important predatory mites in suborder Prostigmata. These mites are mainly associated with a variety of habitats such as plant aerial parts and soil (Walter et al. 2009)...

There are some very good articles in the International Journal of Acarology (IJA) and very good books on the systematics of Phytoseiidae, both published by Indira Publishing House. It is interesting that Harold Denmark at the age of 98 is still active and publishing on phytoseiid systematics. I met him on the 35 th anniversary of the IJA in Detroit in 2009. Acarologists of Iran know him from his article co-authored with Dr. H. Daneshvar entitled: “ Phytoseiids of Iran (Acarina: Phytoseiidae)” published in IJA in 1982.