Unguidispus japonicus Kurosa 1979

• Main Authors: Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza, Sobhi, Mohammad
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Actinedida; Scutacaridae; Unguidispus; Unguidispus japonicus; Mite; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4634180; https://zenodo.org/record/4634180

Unguidispus japonicus Kurosa, 1979 Unguidispus japonicus Kurosa, 1979, p. 64, Figs 1–2. Material examined – The species was obtained during sampling directly from nest of ants in summering of Sabalan Mountain, near Meshguin shahr, Ardabil Province, northwestern Iran, 38° 12' 36.0" N 47 °32' 24.0" E. One female was removed from a vial containing many ants of the species Lasius obscuratus Stitz, 1930, 25 May 2016, leg. M. Sobhi. Distribution – Japan, Russia, associated with Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758) (Kurosa 1979; Khaustov 2014); Iran, associated with L. obscuratus (current study). Remarks – The species Unguidispus japonicus is recorded from Iran for the first time. Morover, the association between this mite and ants of the species Lasius obscuratus is new. : Published as part of Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza & Sobhi, Mohammad, 2018, New records of the microdispid mites (Acari: Heterostigmata: Microdispidae) associated with ants with a review of the family in Iran, pp. 105-113 in Persian Journal of Acarology 7 (2) on page 107, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v7i2.35131, http://zenodo.org/record/4634156 : {"references": ["Kurosa, K. (1979) Three new species of Unguidispus (Acari, Heterostigmata, Microdispidae) from Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 521: 63 - 71.", "Khaustov, A. A. (2014) A review of myrmecophilous mites of the family Microdispidae (Acari: Heterostigmatina) of Western Siberia. ZooKeys, 454: 13 - 28. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 454.8709"]}