| Charletonia baluchestanica (Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae) from Turkmenistan |
| Paper ID : 1130-IPCA5 (R1) |
| Authors |
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Daryoush Mansouri Razi *1, Masoud Hakimitabar2, Roozbeh Moazenzadeh3 1Master's degree in Agricultural Entomology, Department of Horticulture and Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran 2Department of Horticulture and Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran 3. Department of Water Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran |
| Abstract |
| Parasitengona mites belong to Trombidiformes order and Prostigmata suborder and include one of the largest groups of Acari. They have more than 9000 species and are divided into two ecological groups, aquatic and terrestrial mites. There are seven superfamilies in the terrestrial group. One of these superfamilies is Erythraeoidea, that two families Erythraeidae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1828 and Smarididae Vitzthum, 1929 are present in this superfamily. The genus Charletonia Oudemans, 1910 with 92 described species belongs to the Erythraeidae and was divided into three species groups and seven subgroups. The species C. baluchestanica Tashakor & Hakimitabar, 2015 belongs to the brunni species group and kibonotensis species subgroup, which has the following characters: Four setae between coxae II and III, solenidion on Genu I placed on distal half of the segment and proximal to the most distal normal seta, anterior sensory setae posterior or the same level of median normal setae.This species was collected and described based on larvae ectoparasitic on Ochrilidia sp. (Orthoptera: Acrididae) for the first time in 2015 from Sistan and Baluchestan province, eastern Iran. During the study of the habitat modeling of the Moroccan locust using biophysical indicators extracted from satellite images, From the Balkan province of Turkmenistan (near the border of Golestan province of Iran) , in the spring of 2024, species Oedipoda miniata (Pallas, 1771) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) was collected from southern Balkan province, Turkmenistan country. Only one mite was attached to hindwing of the host and detached by a minute insect pin, cleared in lactic acid and finally mounted on microscope slides using Faure’s medium. The host species is new for this species. It seems that this species does not have a special host specialization and is found as an ectoparasite on various species of Orthoptera like other Charletonia species. |
| Keywords |
| Acari, Ectoparasite, Orthoptera, Parasitengona, Short-horned grasshoppers, Species group. |
| Status: Abstract Accepted |
