Partial faunistic study of beetles (Arthropoda: Coleoptera) in Taleqan region (Iran) and their mite associates

Farmahiny Farahani, Vahid Reza; Ahadiyat, Ali; Joharchi, Omid; Saboori, Alireza; Seddigh, Samin

doi:10.52547/nbr.9.1.1

Partial faunistic study of beetles (Arthropoda: Coleoptera) in Taleqan region (Iran) and their mite associates

Authors

Vahid Reza Farmahiny Farahani ¹

Ali Ahadiyat ¹

Omid Joharchi ²

Alireza Saboori ³

Samin Seddigh ⁴

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

³ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

⁴ Department of Plant Protection, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran

https://doi.org/10.52547/nbr.9.1.1

Abstract

The faunistic investigation of beetles has been of a great importance in Iran due to the impresive diversity of species, which is highly promoted by the climatic variation of the Country. Therefore, detection of the ingenious regions, such as Taleqan, is important. In this study, mite-related beetles which were sampled from different areas of Taleqan were investigated and 14 species belonging to 13 genera and 9 families, including Buprestidae, Carabidae, Cerambycidae, Cicindellidae, Lucanidae, Malachidae, Meloidae, Scarabaeidae and Tenebrionidae, were identified. In addition, mite specimens were found to be from different groups, including Mesostigmata, Heterostigmata, Trombidiformes and Sarcoptiformes. New records of mites and their corresponding hosts in Iran were as follows: Alliphis kargi on Scarabaeus pius and S. typhon (Scarabaeidae), Antennoseius sp. on Pterostichus sp. (Carabidae), Parasitengona species on Julodis andreae (Buprestidae) and Mylabris syrica (Meloidae), Prostigmata species on Aegosoma sabricorne and Cerambyx dux (Cerambycidae), Hypoaspis maryame on Pentodon idiota and Oryctes sp. (Scarabaeidae), and H. phyllognathi on Dorcus parallelipipedus (Lucanidae).

Keywords

Alborz province

Coleoptera

mites

phoretic

Qazvin province

20.1001.1.24236330.2022.9.1.1.1

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