A new genus and species of the family Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Carpelimus rivularis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Vahid Rahiminejad; Hamidreza Hajiqanbar; Ali Asghar Talebi

doi:10.11158/saa.21.4.7

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17 March 2016 A new genus and species of the family Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Carpelimus rivularis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Vahid Rahiminejad, Hamidreza Hajiqanbar, Ali Asghar Talebi

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Systematic and Applied Acarology, 21(4):461-470 (2016). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.21.4.7

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The new genus and species Apediculaster carpelimus Rahiminejad and Hajiqanbar gen. nov., sp. nov. (Acari: Prostigmata: Pygmephoridae) are described and illustrated from Oak forests in northern Iran, based on phoretic females associated with Carpelimus (Paratrogophloeus) rivularis (Motschulsky, 1860) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae). The new genus is close to the genera Pediculaster Vitzthum, 1931, Pediculitopsis Mahunka, 1970 and Brasilopsis Mahunka, 1975 but can be distinguished by one pair of setae h on tergite H, two pairs of simple setae (v₁, sc₂) on prodorsum and one pair of pseudanal setae.

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Vahid Rahiminejad, Hamidreza Hajiqanbar, and Ali Asghar Talebi "A new genus and species of the family Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Carpelimus rivularis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)," Systematic and Applied Acarology 21(4), 461-470, (17 March 2016). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.21.4.7

Received: 10 August 2015; Accepted: 1 January 2016; Published: 17 March 2016

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