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Systematic & Applied Acarology
(2008) 13, 137–144.The water mite (Acari: Hydrachnidia) fauna of running waters of Kermanshah Province (Western Iran)
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ1, PEGAH ARMAN2, REZA VAFAEI2 & ALIREZA SABOORI3
1Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro.
E-mail: pesicv@cg.yu
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Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran3
Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. E-mail: saboori@ut.ac.irAbstract
An updated list of the water mites of running waters of Kermanshah Province (Western Iran) is given, and now includes 25 species. One of them, Monatractides kermanshahus is described as new to science; Monatractides aberratus (Lundblad, 1941) is new for the Iranian fauna.
Key words: aquatic mites, new species, Kermanshah Province, Iran
References
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Kumar, N., Kumar, K., Kumar, S. & Pesic, V. (2006) Monatractides tuzovskyi sp. nov. (Acari: Torrenticolidae), a new water mite species from the Garhwal Himalayas (India). Acarina, 14, 81–83.
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Accepted by Owen Seeman: 4 Jun. 2008
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