REDEFINITION OF THE GENUS ALLOPYGMEPHORUS (ACARI: HETEROSTIGMATA: NEOPYGMEPHORIDAE), WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM IRAN

About authors:

Alexander A. Khaustov,  e-mail

X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

H. Hajiqanbar, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115-336, Tehran, Iran

Annotation:

The genus Allopygmephorus Cross, 1965 is redefined. A new species, A. persicus sp. n., phoretic on an undetermined hydrophilid beetle (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) is described from Iran. A new combination is proposed: Allopygmephorus tuberosus (Mahunka, 1969), comb. n. (from Neopygmephorus).

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