Pediculaster dudichi Mahunka, 1970

Rahiminejad, Vahid, Yazdanian, Mohsen & Zeitounli, Safieh, 2022, New records of heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Heterostimatina) from dry rice cultivation of Gorgan, northern Iran, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (1), pp. 121-129 : 123

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.8.1.121
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:86D51D79-A55E-4462-84AE-428C0F6C5548
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15859160
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D261B6D-D768-C511-17F0-FDC06990FC28
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pediculaster dudichi Mahunka, 1970
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Treatment

World distribution. Hungary —phoretomorphic females were collected from soil samples ( Mahunka, 1970).

Material examined. 3♀♀, Iran, Golestan province, Gorgan, Nodijeh village (36.90°N, 54.52°E, 97 m a.s.l.), extracted from a soil sample in dry rice cultivation, 19.vii.2020 GoogleMaps ; 2♀♀, Gorgan, Ali – Abad Kenaar – Shahr village (36.90°N, 54.52°E, 97 m a.s.l.), 12.vii.2020 GoogleMaps , leg.: V. Rahiminejhad.

Remarks. This is a first record of P. dudichi and the tenth Pediculaster representative for Iranian mite fauna ( Seyedein et al., 2021).