Minicaraboacarus quadridiscalis Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2008

Rahiminejad, Vahid, Yahyapour, Eliye, Ghandhari, Yasaman & Jafari, Fakhteh, 2024, New reports of caraboacarid mites (Acari: Trochometridioidea) from Iran, with some notes on their host specificity, Persian Journal of Acarology 13, pp. 427-433 : 430

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.22073/pja.v13i3.85596
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13160775
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C68798-FFAD-FFCE-304C-FC16FBBF113C
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Minicaraboacarus quadridiscalis Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2008
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Material examined – Two specimens were extracted from under elytra of Scarites sp. (Col.: Carabidae ) collected from Aq-Qala, Golestan Province, 37.07° N, 54.53° E, and altitude 3 m a.s.l., April 29, 2023, by V. Rahiminejad.

World distribution and Host specificity – Firstly, the mites were collected under elytra of Cymbionotum semelederi (Chaudoir, 1861) (Col.: Carabidae ), from Feizabad of Torbat Heidariyeh, Razawi Khorassan Province, Iran ( Hajiqanbar et al. 2008). Then, Mortazavi and Hajiqanbar (2012) reported it from Rafsanjan, Kerman Province, in association with Scarites (Scarites) procerus eurytus Fischer von Waldheim.

Remarks – This is the first record of the species from Golestan province.