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Systematic & Applied Acarology
(2010) 15, 65–68.A new species of the genus
Neognathus Willmann (Acari: Prostigmata: Caligonellidae) from Northwestern IranMOHAMMAD BAGHERI
1, SALİH DOĞAN2, KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD3, KARIM KAMALI4, MOHAMMAD KHANJANI5 & ALIREZA SABOORI61Department 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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