Scutacarus sphaeroideus Karafiati, 1959

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 : 124-125

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.8.1.121
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:86D51D79-A55E-4462-84AE-428C0F6C5548
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D261B6D-D769-C517-1701-F8EF6D4FFE59
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Scutacarus sphaeroideus Karafiati, 1959
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World distribution. This species has world-wide distribution and inhabits soils shorelines ( Khaustov, 2008) and has been found to be phoretic on ants, beetles ( Staphylinidae , Heteroceridae ) and small mammals ( Cricetidae , Muridae ) ( Baumann & Ferragut, 2018). This species has been collected several

times in Iran from soil samples and associated with hydrophilid beetles (Col.: Hydrophilidae ) and Dryops sp. (Col.: Dryopidae ) ( Hajiqanbar, 2008; Tajodin, 2013; Seyedein et al., 2020).

Material examined. 50♀♀, Iran, Golestan province, Gorgan, Nodijeh village (36.49°N, 54.16°E, 28 m a.s.l.) GoogleMaps , 2♀♀, Sorkhan – Kalateh village (36.99°N, 54.56°E, 105 m a.s.l.) GoogleMaps and Ali – Abad Kenaar – Shahr village (36.90°N, 54.52°E, 97 m a.s.l.) GoogleMaps , extracted from soil samples, vi–viii.2019, leg.: V. Rahiminejad ..