Caraboacarus krczali Eidelberg, 1994

Rahiminejad, Vahid, Yahyapour, Eliye, Ghandhari, Yasaman & Jafari, Fakhteh, 2024, New reports of caraboacarid mites (Acari: Trochometridioidea) from Iran, with some notes on their host specificity, Persian Journal of Acarology 13, pp. 427-433 : 429

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.22073/pja.v13i3.85596
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13160769
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C68798-FFAC-FFCF-333D-FC60FA8A1136
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Caraboacarus krczali Eidelberg, 1994
status

Treatment

Material examined – Two specimens were extracted from soil sample collected from Alangdareh forest, Gorgan , Golestan Province, 36.46° N, 54.26° E, and altitude 236 m a.s.l., June 19, 2023, by V. Rahiminejad GoogleMaps .

World distribution and Host specificity – The species first described from Russia and Ukraine and after that was reported from Senegal and Iran phoretic on Calosoma spp. and Calosoma auropunctatum dsungaricum Gebler , respectively ( Mortazavi et al. 2011; Mortazavi and Hajiqanbar 2012).

Remarks – This species has been observed living freely in soil samples for the first time.