Introduction of Some Poronotic Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida: Poronotic Brachypylina) from Arasbaran Forests, North of East Azarbaijan Province

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1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.

2 Plant Protection Research Department, East Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran.

3 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.

4 Plant Protection Research Department, West Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Urmia, Iran.

Abstract

Abstract
During different seasons of 2013, a faunistic survey was carried out on oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in Arasbaran forests, north of East Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Mites were extracted from soil and plant litter samples using a Berlese's funnel and cleared in Nesbitt's fluid. Then, they were mounted in Hoyer's medium as microscope slides. In this study, 13 species, belonging to 10 genera and 7 families of poronotic oribatid mites were collected and identified, of which two species for East Azerbaijan Province and two species for the Iran mite fauna were new records which were marked with (*) and (**) respectively. The collected species according to related families are as follows:
Lucoppia feideri**, Oribatula (Oribatula) tibialis alifera (Oribatulidae); Scheloribates fimbriatus (Scheloribatidae); Ceratozetella cf. sellnicki (Ceratozetidae); Eupelops cf. eximius, E. acromios, E. torulosus*, E. tardus (Phenopelopidae); Anachipteria cf. deficiens (Achipteriidae); Punctoribates cf. liber (Punctoribatidae); Pilogalumna tenuiclava*, Pergalumna longisetosa**, Galumna (Galumna) karajica (Galumnidae).

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Journal of Applied Research in Plant Protection
Volume 7, Issue 3
December 2018
Pages 117-123

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