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Systematic & Applied Acarology (2010) 15, 65–68.

A new species of the genus Neognathus Willmann (Acari: Prostigmata: Caligonellidae) from Northwestern Iran

MOHAMMAD BAGHERI¹, SALİH DOĞAN², KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD³, KARIM KAMALI⁴, MOHAMMAD KHANJANI⁵ & ALIREZA SABOORI⁶

1Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran.

E-mails: mbagheri20022002@yahoo.com, Bagheri@mhec.ac.ir

2 Department of Biology, Kazım Karabekir Education Faculty, Atatürk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey.

E-mail: sadogan@atauni.edu.tr

3Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. E-mail: khaddad@tabrizu.ac.ir

4Department of Agricultural Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

5Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bu-Ali Sina, Hamadan, Iran. E-mail: Khanjani@

basu.ac.ir

6Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. E-mail: saboori@ut.ac.ir

Abstract

A new species of Neognathus Willmann (Acari: Caligonellidae), N. ueckermanni sp. nov., is described and illustrated from East Azarbaijan Province, Northwestern Iran.

Key words: Taxonomy, Raphignathoidea, soil, Medicago sativa, Iran

 

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Accepted by Owen Seeman 20 Jan. 2010; published 31 Mar. 2010