Petalomium crinitus Khaustov and Trach, 2013

Rahiminejad, Vahid & Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza, 2020, New records of mites of the Heterostigmata (Acari: Prostigmata) associated with insects from Golestan Province, northern Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (3), pp. 233-242 : 235-236

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.22073/pja.v9i3.61223

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/557987D1-A76D-FFA7-FE31-F87DFEF22973

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scientific name

Petalomium crinitus Khaustov and Trach, 2013
status

 

Petalomium crinitus Khaustov and Trach, 2013

World distribution – Ukraine, associated with Lasius sp. (Hym.: Formicidae ) ( Khaustov and Trach 2013). It was also recorded from Western Siberia, Russia in association with Lasius niger ( Khaustov and Tolstikov 2016) . This species is also reported from an unidentified species of Lasius from Isfahan, Iran ( Tajodin 2013).

Material examined – One specimen associated with Tetramorium sp. (Hym.: Formicidae ) was found, the hosts captured by a light trap in Alang-Dareh forest, Gorgan, 30 June 2014.

Remarks – This is the first known phoretic association between the mite and the ant genus Tetramorium .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Actinedida

Family

Pygmephoridae

Genus

Petalomium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

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