Trochometridium kermanicum Mortazavi & Hajiqanbar, 2011

Rahiminejad, Vahid & Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza, 2020, New records of mites of the Heterostigmata (Acari: Prostigmata) associated with insects from Golestan Province, northern Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (3), pp. 233-242 : 238

Trochometridium kermanicum Mortazavi & Hajiqanbar, 2011

World distribution – Iran: Kerman Province, collected from Paulusiella sp. (Col.: Elateridae ); Razavi Khorasan Province, ex. Komarowia tartara (Saussure) (Hym.: Tiphiidae ); Mazandaran Province, under elytra of Coccobius schreberi (L.) (Col.: Scarabaeidae ) ( Mortazavi et al. 2011; Loghmani et al. 2014b; Hajiqanbar and Arjomandi 2019).

Material examined – Two specimens of the mite Trochometridium kermanicum found in a vial containing ethanol 75% and five earwigs of the Labidura riparia (Pallas, 1773) (Derm.: Labiduridae ) and three specimens of the mite associated with Gryllus desertus Pall ( Orthoptera : Gryllidae ) in shore of Caspian Sea, Bandar-E-Turkmen, 36.89 N, 54.05 E, and altitude 1 m a.s.l., 12 July 2013 and three September 2014.

Remarks – The G. desertus is a new host record for the mites of the family Trochometridiidae . This is the first record of phoresy of this mite on earwigs. Also, this is the second report of phoresy of the family Trochometridiidae and the order Dermaptera . Previously, T. chinensis (Mahunka, 1966) was reported in association with an earwig belonging to the family Labiduridae from North Khorasan province ( Hajiqanbar et al. 2009; Mortazavi et al. 2011).