Johnstoniana parva Wendt, Wohltmann, Eggers and Otto, 1994

Noei, Javad, Saboori, Alireza & Hajizadeh, Jalil, 2014, Two new species and one new record of larvae of the family Johnstonianidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from Iran with a key to species of the genus Diplothrombium, Zootaxa 3785 (2), pp. 241-257 : 255-256

Johnstoniana parva Wendt, Wohltmann, Eggers and Otto, 1994

The specimen collected in Iran completely fits to the data of Johnstoniana parva given by Wohltmann et al. (2004) ( Table 4 ). It is a first record for Iran.

Material examined. One larva from soil (off host) [forest close to river], IRAN: Guilan province, Asalem city, Gijave village, 37° 42.077' N, 48° 54.077' E, 405 m a.s.l., 12 June 2010, coll. J. Noei. Voucher is deposited in the Acarological collection, Jalal Afshar Zoological Museum, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.

Distribution. This species was described from Johnstoniana rapax from Germany ( Wendt et al. 1994) and was recorded from Poland ( Gabryś & Mąkol 1994).