Aethiophenax mycetophagi sp nov (Acari: Trombidiformes: Acarophenacidae), an egg parasitoid of Mycetophagus quadripustulatus (Coleoptera: Mycetophagidae) from Iran

作者：Arjomandi Elham; Hajiqanbar Hamidreza^*; Joharchi Omid

来源：Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2017, 22(4): 541-549.

DOI：10.11158/saa.22.4.9

• mite
• Heterostigmata
• beetle
• Tenebrionoidea
• fungi

A new species of the genus Aethiophenax Mahunka, 1981 (Acari: Prostigmata: Acarophenacidae), A. mycetophagi Arjomandi and Hajiqanbar sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on adult females. Mites were collected from the beneath elytra of hairy fungus beetles, Mycetophagus quadripustulatus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Col.: Tenebrionoidea: Mycetophagidae) grazing on oyster mushrooms on a bough of a tree in Mazandaran province, northern Iran. The new species, as fourth representative of the genus, is characterized by all dorsal setae thin and relatively long (26-35) in comparison with those of congeners; all ventral setae thin, setae 2a longest and 1b shortest of venter of idiosoma; tibiotarsus I with solenidion phi slightly clavate and as long as.; tarsi II with seta pl" modified and spine-like; genu III with two setae (l' and v'). A key to the world species of the genus is also provided.

• 出版日期2017-4