A new species of chigger mite (Acariformes: Trombiculidae: Leeuwenhoekiinae) collected from a scorpion in Iran

Stekolnikov A.A., Mohammadi Bavani M., Rafinejad J., Saboori A.

International Journal of Acarology, 45(6-7): 341-346 (2019).

S U M M A R Y

A new species of chigger mite, Odontacarus scorpionivorus Stekolnikov and Saboori sp. nov., is described from a scorpion Mesobuthus eupeus (Koch) in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It is the tenth known case of a chigger parasitizing an arthropod. The new species is similar to Odontacarus paradoxus (André) described from a scorpion host in Greece and to a group of Odontacarus species from Transcaucasia, Middle Asia, and China.