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Mohammad Khanjani

Mohammad Khanjani

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

Research

Title
Study of species diversity phytoseiid mites associated with some medicinal plants in some parts of West and North–West of Iran
Type
Presentation
Keywords
predatory, natural ecosystem, population, two spotted spider mite
Year
2012
Researchers ، Mohammad Khanjani ، Farshad Masoudian

Abstract

Phytoseiidae family mites are found in different natural ecosystems e.g. medicinal plants. They have beneficial role in reduction population of Two Spotted Spider Mites (TSSM). Up to species diversity they are not studied. In order to this survey mites associated with areal part of plants including: Betony, Strawberry, Chickory, Astragalus, Mint, Falcaria, Greater plantain, Yarrow, Raspberry, Common sage, Tamarikis, Salsify and Alfalfa, in some parts of Hamedan, Kurdistan and Ardabil provinces, in 2009–2011, were collected (shaking method and Berlese funnel). All specimens were directly mounted on permanent microscopic slides using Hoyer’s medium. And also the specimens were identified and examined under an Olympus BX51 microscope. In this study, the 11 species belonging 6 genera in this family are the following: Amblyseius obtusus (Koch, 1839), Proprioseiopsis messor (Wainstein, 1960), Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948, Neoseiulus bicaudus (Wainstein, 1962), Neoseiulus marginatus (Wainstein, 1961), Neoseiulus sugonjaevi (Wainstein & Abbasova, 1974), Neoseiulus tauricus (Livshitz & Kuznetsov, 1972), Neoseiulus zwoelferi (Dosse, 1957), Paragigagnathus insuetus (Livshitz & Kuznetsov, 1972), Phytoseius plumifer (Canestrini & Fanzago, 1876), Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) tamaricis Kolodochka, 1982.