Abstract :
Pseudoparasitus hajiqanbari sp. nov., a new free-living species of the family Laelapidae
is described based on adult females collected from forest litter in southern Caspian Sea,
Mazandaran and Golestan Provinces, Iran. The new species can be easily distinguished
from other members of the genus by a combination of characters, including presence of
eight denticulate rows in deutosternal groove, edentate fixed digit of chelicerae, elongate
post-stigmatic region of peritrematal shield and insertion of palp trochanter setae av1 on
a protuberance. Also, a key to the known Iranian species of Pseudoparasitus Oudemans
is provided.
