Author/Authors :
فخاري ، نرگس نويسنده Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Zanjan University Fakhari, Narges , خانجاني ، محمد نويسنده Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Bu–Ali Sina University, Hamedan Khanjani, Mohammad , رحماني ، حسن نويسنده Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Zanjan University, Zanjan ran Rahmani, Hasan , خانجاني ، معصومه نويسنده Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran; Khanjani, Masoumeh
Abstract :
Raphignathoid mites are important biological control agents of spider and eriophyid
mites, and scale insects in agriculture and forestry. Therefore, a study on the fauna of
superfamily Raphignathoidea in Zanjan city was carried out during 2012–2013. In this
survey, 23 species belonging to 8 genera from 4 different families were collected and
identified. Among them male of Stigmaeus shabestariensis Haddad Irani-Nejad,
Lotfollahi & Akbari, 2010 was recorded for the first time from Zanjan, Iran and was
new report to Acari fauna of the world, and also S. shabestariensis Haddad Irani-Nejad
Haddad Irani-Nejad, Lotfollahi & Akbari, 2010 was the abundant mite species in
Zanjan vicinities in our collected specimens.
