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Mohammad Khanjani

Mohammad Khanjani

Academic rank: Professor
ORCID:
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 8669197700
HIndex:
Faculty: Faculty of Agriculture
Address: Department Of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
Phone: 34425400

Research

Title
Predatory mites of the family Cunaxidae from North West of Iran
Type
Presentation
Keywords
Mite, Trombidiformes, snout mites, predator, Iran
Year
2016
Researchers Amir hossein Eghbalian ، Mohammad Khanjani

Abstract

The members of the family Cunaxidae are free-living predators that ambush or capture their prey with silk traps. They are recorded from plants, mosses, litter, decomposing bark, soil, stored products and rat burrows. They prey on a wide variety of small animals, such as nematodes, insects and other mites. Little is known of the effectiveness of the Cunaxinae in controlling pests on an economic scale; however reared Cunaxa capreolus artificially on booklice and the oriental spider mite, Eutetranychus orientalis. These cunaxids also showed cannibalism. Super family Bdelloidea (snout mites) are counted predatory and cosmopolitan mites in suborder Prostigmata. In this order, study on identification of the mites of associated with soil of crops, orchards, pasture and forest plants in some parts of west and northwest of Iran was carried out during 2012-2014. In this survey, 8 species from the Cunaxidae, were collected and identified. All species were new to science. The scientific name of species according to taxonomic position are listed as follows: Family Cunaxidae: Armascirus sp., Dactyloscirus sp., Coleoscirus sp., Cunaxa sp., Cunaxoides sp., Pulaeus sp., Pulaeus sp., Lupaeusi sp.