Tarsonemus schaarschmidti Mahunka, 1970

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 : 32

Tarsonemus schaarschmidti Mahunka, 1970

Material examined: 4 females, Jolfa , Iri village commune, 38°46' 35"N, 45°59'51"E, 1,085 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 26-March-2014 ; 2 females, Jolfa , Siahrood town commune, 38°52'17"N, 46°01'29"E, 767 m. a.s.l., ex soil, 26- March-2014 ; 1 female, Marand , Bonab town commune, 38°25'32"N, 45°55'09"E, 1,513 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 29-May-2014; all coll. S. Gheblealivand.

Distribution: Central Europe: Hungary ( Mahunka 1970), Poland ( Kaliszewski 1993) and Northwestern Iran.

Remarks: This is the first record from Asia.