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International Journal of Acarology Volume 45, 2019 - Issue 6-7
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A new species of chigger mite (Acariformes: Trombiculidae: Leeuwenhoekiinae) collected from a scorpion in Iran

Alexandr A. StekolnikovLaboratory of Parasitic Arthropods, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, RussiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Mulood Mohammadi BavaniDepartment of Medical Entomology and Vector control, School of Public Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, IranView further author information
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Javad RafinejadDepartment of Medical Entomology and Vector control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranView further author information
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Alireza SabooriDepartment of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, IranView further author information
Pages 341-346 | Received 05 Apr 2019, Accepted 22 Jul 2019, Published online: 08 Aug 2019
 
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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.

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Acknowledgments

We thanks two anonymous reviewers for useful comments.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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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).

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