مجله ایرانی کنه شناسی
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Mesostigmatic mites are known as the best-studied soil mites worldwide (Walter and Proctor 2013). The family Halolaelapidae comprises about 80 described species in four valid genera, including Halolaelaps Berlese & Trouessart, Halodarcia Karg, Leitneria Evans and Saprosecans Karg (Halliday 2008; Lindquist et al. 2009). They are common predators and mostly live in the organic substrate, manure and debris. The members of Leitneria species are present in Central and Southern Europe and Iran (Bregetova and Shcherbak 1977; Moraza 2010; Farahi et al. 2018). So far only one species of the family Halolaelapidae, Saprosecans baloghi Karg, is recorded from Turkey (Ç obanoğ lu and Bayram 1998), and this is considered as the first report of Leitneria pugio (Karg, 1961) from the country...

The family Ascidae includes more than 370 described species belonging to 17 genera (Moraes et al. 2016). Berlese (1916) established the genus Antennoseius and later a related genus, Vitzthumia, was erected by Thor (1930) as a monobasic genus to accommodate a new species, V. oudemansi, differentiated from the former by retaining the ambulacrum and claws on leg I. Ryke (1962) synonymized these genera and Bregetova (1977) recognized Vitzthumia as a subgenus of Antennoseius s. str. The relationship between the genus Anystipalpus and both subgenera of Antennoseius was reviewed by Lindquist and Moraza (2009). Moraes et al. (2016) reported 62 species under Antennoseius of which 37 species belong to Antennoseius (Antennoseius), 19 species to Antennoseius (Vitzthumia), and six species without subgenus placement. Currently, Kazemi (2018) determined A. (A. ) alexandrovi Bregetova, 1977 and A. (A. ) arvensis Kalú z, 1994 as junior synonyms of A. (A. ) avius Karg, 1977 and also A. (A. ) japonicus Ishikawa, 1979 and A. (A. ) sinicus Guo & Gu, 1997 as junior synonyms of A. (A. ) hispaniensis Bernhard, 1963. So, the current number of Antennoseius species should be 58. Until now, 14 species of Antennoseius have been reported from Iran, including 12 species of Antennoseius s. str. and two species of A. (Vitzthumia) (Kazemi and Rajaei 2013; Kazemi 2018)...