Allopygmephorus orientalis Mahunka and Mahunka, 1988

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 : 123-124

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.15859168
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D261B6D-D768-C510-17F0-F8036B1DFE3D
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Allopygmephorus orientalis Mahunka and Mahunka, 1988
status

Treatment

World distribution. Malaysia —extracted from soil samples ( Mahunka & Mahunka, 1988).

Material examined. 2♀♀, Iran, Golestan province, Gorgan, Nodijeh village (36.49°N, 54.16°E, 28 m a.s.l.), extracted from a soil sample in the vicinity of dry rice cultivation, 21.vi.2020 GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Gorban, Sorkhan – Kalateh village (36.99°N, 54.56°E, 105 m a.s.l.), 27.vii.2020 GoogleMaps , leg.: V. Rahiminejhad.

Remarks. The species is a new record for mite fauna of Iran.