Mites of the family Caligonellidae (Acarina)

Caligonella saboorii n. sp. (Acari: Trombidiformes: Caligonellidae) from western Iran

“…Stylophore bullet-shaped; fixed digits (spinae) undeveloped, at least not present as slender, spinous processes; peritremata arise on anterior tip of stylophore, terminate on its dorsal surface. Palpus stubby, total length not exceeding that of femur I. Claw small in relation to palptibia (Summers and Schlinger 1955).…”

“…Members of this family are small, reddish in life, free-living and can feed on small arthropods. They are often found in various habitats such as soil, leaf litter and bark of trees, moss, storehouses and bird nests (Summers and Schlinger 1955;Meyer and Ueckermann 1989;Fan 2000;Doǧan 2003;Ahaniazad and Bagheri 2012;Akyol and Koç 2012). This family currently comprises five genera, of which the genus Caligonella currently contains 9 known species namely: C. humilis (Germany), C. afroensis (Meyer and Ueckermann 1989) (South Africa), C. claviparma (Meyer and Ueckermann 1989) (South Africa), C. scutovata (Meyer and Ueckermann 1989) (South Africa), C. geonoma (Meyer and Ueckermann 1989) (South Africa), C. tunxiensis (Hu and Hu 1997) …”

A new species and two new records of the family Caligonellidae (Acari: Raphignathoidea) from Turkey

“…They feed on small arthropods and have a worldwide distribution (Summers and Schlinger 1955;Meyer and Ueckermann 1989;Fan 2000). This family is represented in Turkey by six species, namely, Caligonella (Ca.)…”

A new species of the genus Molothrognathus Summers and Schilinger (Acari: Trombidiformes: Caligonellidae) from Iran

“…They often live on tree bark and in litter, soil, moss, storehouses and bird nests (Summers and Schlinger 1955;Meyer and Ueckermann 1989;Fan 2000;Do?an 2003). The genus Molothrognathus is the best known genus in this family and has three known species namely: M. mehrnejadi Liang and Zhang, 1997; M. azizi Ueckermann andKhanjani, 2002 andM.…”