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ABSTRACT
A new species of chigger mite, Odontacarus scorpionivorus Stekolnikov and Saboori sp. nov., is described from a scorpion Mesobuthus eupeus (Koch) in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It is the tenth known case of a chigger parasitizing an arthropod. The new species is similar to Odontacarus paradoxus (André) described from a scorpion host in Greece and to a group of Odontacarus species from Transcaucasia, Middle Asia, and China.
http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DE9359A1-F0E8-47AA-B2C4-3708D1C1B73F
Acknowledgments
We thanks two anonymous reviewers for useful comments.
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Funding
This research was supported by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research [No. 17-54-560013] Iran_a (to A. Stekolnikov) and Iranian National Science Foundation [Grant No. 96003653] (to A. Saboori).