Dolichocybe silvani

Häckel, Martin & Anichtchenko, Alexandr, 2015, Megacephala marginicollis, Acarologia 55 (3), pp. 311-320 : 311-320

Dolichocybe silvani

Rahiminejad and Hajiqanbar, 2011

Material examined — 4 ♀♀, Mazandaran Prov., Abbas Abad-Kelardasht Road, Darasara Forest (36°37’N, 51°06’E, altitude 6 m a.s.l.), 7.VIII.2013, from under elytra of the beetle Bitoma crenata Fabricius, 1775 (Col.: Zopheridae ) collected from under bark of logs. 3 ♀♀, Mazandaran Prov., Abbas Abad-Kelardasht Road, Darasara Forest (36°37’N, 51°06’E, altitude 6 m a.s.l.), 7.VIII.2013, from under elytra of the beetle Uleiota planata (L., 1761) (Col.: Silvanidae ) collected from under bark of logs.

World distribution — Iran, Gorgan province, phoretic on Silvanus sp. (Col.: Silvanidae ) ( Rahiminejad et al., 2011a); Mazandaran province (current study).

Remarks — New record of association between dolichocybid mites and beetles of the family Zopheridae . Association between this mite and beetles of the genus Uleiota Latreille, 1796 is new. All these mentioned hosts are saproxylic and confined to the superfamily Cucujoidea . These findings possibly reinforce the ideas suggested by Rahiminejad et al. (2011a) and Katlav et al. (2014) that many dolichocybid mites occupied subcortical habitats exploited by variety of saproxylic fungi, and can be found as phoretic on any beetles (or presumably insects) whose ecological niches overlapped those of these mites.