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Abstract
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The family Tenuipalpidae Berlese, 1913 (Acari: Prostigmata) is worldwide in distribution and includes several economically important pest species (Mesa et al., 2009; Khanjani et al., 2012). The family Tenuipalpidae comprise over 1,100 described species in 38 genera that are parasitic on flowering plants, conifers and ferns. The genera Brevipalpusand Tenuipalpusare highly speciose, the former with more than 307 and the latter with 282 described species (Mesa et al., 2009). To date, 13 species of the genus Agybtobia, 18 species of the genusCenopalpus, 2 species of the genusPhytopalpus and 9 species of the genusTenuipalpus have been recorded from Iran. During 2013-2014, fauna of the tenuipalpid mites associated with oak trees in Nahavand were studied. In this order, leaves of oak trees were taken to the laboratory. Mites were removed from plant leaves with a No. 0 paint brush under a stereomicroscope and directly mounted in Hoyer’s medium. In total 5 species belonging to 4 different genera were identified. Cenopalpus bakerihad high population on oak trees. Identified species are listed as follow:genusAegyptobia Sayed 1950:A. persica Khosrowshahi & Arbabi, 1997; genus Cenopalpus Pritchard & Baker, 1958:C. meyerae Khosrowshahi, 1991;C. bakeri Duzgunes, 1967; genusPhytoptipalpus Tragardh, 1904: P. rosae (Mitrofanov & Strunkova, 1978); genusTenuipalpus Donnadieu, 1875:T. parsii Khosrowshahi & Arbabi, 1997.
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