Veigaia planicola (Belese, 1892)

Nemati, A., Gwiazdowicz, D. J., Riahi, E. & Mohseni, M., 2013, Catalogue Of Mesostigmatid Mites Of Iran. Part 4: Parasitidae, Veigaiidae And Zerconidae, Acarologia 53 (3), pp. 263-271 : 268

Veigaia planicola (Belese, 1892)

Recorded in Esfahan (32°39’37"N, 51°41’22"E, H: 1608 m), Kermanshah (34°18’51"N, 47°3’54"E) (Rijab), and Tehran (35°42’2"N, 51°21’20"E, H: 1200 m) from soil ( Babakfard et al., 2008; Jalaeian et al., 2004; Kamali et al., 2004); from Salmas region (West Azarbaijan province) in apple orchard soil ( Alizadeh and Shirdel, 2012).

New Record from soil in Shahrekord (32°19’39"N, 50°51’35"E, H: 2206 m), coll., A. Nemati, 2011 and 2012.

Kamali et al. (2001) reported V. serrata Willmann, 1936 from soils in E. Azarbaijan (38°4’36"N, 46°17’5"E, H: 1386 m), but this species has been considered as a junior synonym of V. planicola .

Two unidentified species of this genus were recorded from cow manure in Kerman (30°16’39"N, 57°3’53"E, H: 1763 m) ( Arjomandi et al., 2011) and from cotton field soil in Ardebil (48°31’33"N, 37°37’08"E, H: 1500 m) ( Kamali et al., 2001).