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Title A new species of the genus Favognathus Luxton (Acari: Cryptognathidae) from western Azerbaijani, Iran
Type JournalPaper
Keywords Plant, terrestrial mite, litter, lichen, mosses.
Abstract A new species of the genus Favognathus Luxton is described from Iran, namely: F. naghii Hassanzadeh, Khanjani & SafarAlizadeh sp. nov., collected from soil and litter under Cydonia oblonga Mill. (Rosaceae), Sardasht vicinity, Western Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Also, a key to all known species of the genus Favognathus is presented here.
Researchers Shahram Mirfakhraee (Fourth Researcher), Mohammad Hassan Safaralizadeh (Third Researcher), Mohammad Khanjani (Second Researcher), Mohammad Hassanzadeh (First Researcher)