Allopygmephorus heterodactylus Mahunka, 1973

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.15859166
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D261B6D-D768-C511-17F0-FB2C6CA2FA3B
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Allopygmephorus heterodactylus Mahunka, 1973
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Treatment

World distribution. Ghana —collected from undetermined beetle ( Mahunka, 1973).

Material examined. 2♀♀, Iran, Golestan province, Gorgan, Ali – Abad Kenaar – Shahr village (36.90°N, 54.52°E, 97 m a.s.l.), associated with Cercyon sp. (Col.: Hydrophyllidae), captured by a light trap, 30.vii.2020, leg.: V. Rahiminejhad GoogleMaps .

Remarks. This is the first record of phoretic association between this mite and the host beetle of the genus Cercyon Leach, 1817 . Also, this species is recorded for the first time from Asia.