A new species of Paragigagnathus Amitai & Grinberg (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Iran

Alireza Arjmandi-Nezhad (1) , Serge Kreiter (2) , Alireza Saboori (3, 4) , Sultan Ravan (1)

1 University of Zabol
2 UMR CBGP - Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations
3 University of Tehran
4 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.

Paragigagnathus sistaniensis Kreiter, Arjmandi-Nezhad and Saboori n. sp. belongs to the tribe Neoseiulini, subfamily Amblyseiinae, is described and illustrated, based on females and males. The new species was collected from foliage of tamarisk trees in Sistan region, Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran.

Mots clés: Animalia; Arthropoda; Acari; Aacriformes; Gamasina; predatory mites; new taxon; morphology; Tamarix; Sistan and Baluchestan

Domaines: Zoologie des invertébrés; Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie

Alireza Arjmandi-Nezhad, Serge Kreiter, Alireza Saboori, Sultan Ravan. A new species of Paragigagnathus Amitai & Grinberg (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Iran. Acarologia, 2022, 62 (1), pp.48-57. ⟨10.24349/8dra-mc90⟩. ⟨hal-03525841⟩