Tarsonemus floricolus Canestrini and Fanzago, 1876

Gheblealivand, Saeide S., Irani-Nejad, Karim Haddad, Magowski, Wojciech Ł. & Manzari, Shahab, 2018, The genus Tarsonemus Canestrini and Fanzago, 1876 (Acari: Heterostigmatina: Tarsonemidae) in East Azerbaijan, Iran, with a description of T. lenticulatus sp. nov. and re-description of T. annotatus Livshits, Mitrofanov and Sharonov, 1979, Zootaxa 4446 (1), pp. 13-38 : 28

Tarsonemus floricolus Canestrini and Fanzago, 1876

Material examined: 3 females, Marand, Yam village commune, 38°20'29"N, 45°51'54"E, 1,742 m. a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 25-April-2014 ; 3 females, Marand , Ordaklu village commune, 38°25'23"N, 45°50'17"E, 1,406 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 25-April-2014 ; 1 female, Marand , Alinja village commune, 38°25'54"N, 46°00'06"E, 1,785 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 25-April-2014 ; 3 females, Marand , Yamchi town commune, 38°30'37"N, 45°39'37"E, 1,263 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 23-May-2014 ; 2 females, Marand , Farfar village commune, 38°28'41"N, 45°41'08"E, 1,276 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 23-May-2014 ; 2 females, Jolfa, Gordian plain commune, 38°53'13"N, 45°42'35"E, 962 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 29-May-2014; 3 females, Marand, Dovlat–Abad village commune, 38°27'01"N, 45°50'25"E, 1,533 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 29-May-2014; 1 female, Marand , Bonab town commune, 38°25'32"N, 45°55'09"E, 1,513 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 29-May-2014 ; 7 females, Sufiyan , Ivand village commune, 38°22'04"N, 46°07'28"E, 1,710 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 10-October-2014; all coll. S. Gheblealivand.

Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Remarks: This is the first record from Western Asia.