<p><strong>First non-European species</strong><strong> </strong><strong>of the genus<em> Montenegtrombium</em> </strong><strong>(Acari: Microtrombidiidae) ectoparasitic on Acrididae (Orthoptera)</strong><strong> from Iran</strong></p>

The first description of a microtrombidiid mite (Actinotrichida: Prostigmata, Microtrombidiidae) from Baltic amber, with notes on related extant genera and species

“…Both P. sebastiani and P. milicae were recorded from Calliptamus italicus (L.) (Orthoptera: Acrididae), P. milicae was recorded also from Carpocoris purpureipennis (De Geer) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), whereas P. baloutchi —from Acrida sp., Oedipoda schochii Brunner von Wattenwyl and Chorthippus brunneus (Thunberg) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) (Haitlinger 2000; Masoumi et al 2016; Saboori and Pešić 2006). Persianthrombium has been hitherto known to parasitize Locusta sp.…”

“…Consequently, we regard Montenegtrombium as a synonym of Porttrombidium . Masoumi et al (2016) provided the verified characteristics of Montenegtrombium milicae Saboori and Pešić, 2006 (here regarded as Porttrombidium milicae ) and pointed to the presence of ‘sword-like lophotrix’ in newly described Montenegtrombium baloutchi (here regarded as Porttrombidium baloutchi ), whereas a sword-like seta arising at the tarsus III termination, and not being a lophotrix, is observed in the latter species but also in P. gedanense sp. nov.…”

The first record of Valgothrombium (Acari: Microtrombidiidae) from Iran with description of a new species

“…One of the largest family in group of Parasitengona is Microtrombidiidae with about 450 species in 126 genera, all of which are parasites of arthropods as larvae (Mąkol and Wohltmann, 2012;Masoumi et al, 2016;Mąkol et al, 2017). Valgothrombiinae is a subfamily of Microtrombidiidae that comprises 12 genera.…”