Pavania Lombardini 1949
Creators: name: Sobhi, Mohammad
name: Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza
name: Mortazavi, Azim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Dolichocybidae
Pavania

description: Key to world species of the genus Pavania associated with beetles of the family Scarabaeidae
1. Prodorsum with three pairs of setae (sc 1 absent)...................................... (gymnopleuri species group) 2
- Prodorsum with four pairs of setae (including sc 1)............................................................ 4
2. Setae v 1 longer than distance between their bases; setae e longer than f; setae h 2 15 times longer than h 1 (Iran, phoretic on Gym- nopleurus mopsus persianus Reitter).................................. P. gymnopleuri Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2010
- Setae v 1 shorter than distance between their bases; setae e never longer than f; setae h 2 at most seven times longer than h 1 … 3
3. Genu I with one seta (v'); dorsal idiosomal setae smooth; setae c 1 longer than c 2; setae c 1 and d pointed (Iran, phoretic on G. mopsus persianus)................................................ P. sabzevarensis Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2010
- Genu I with two setae (v', l'); dorsal idiosomal setae weakly barbed; setae c 2 longer than c 1; setae c 1 and d distinctly blunt-ended
(Iran, phoretic on Onthophagus gibbosus gibbosus (Scriba), O. taurus (Schreber) and O. amyntas alces (Fabricius)) ......................................................................... P. onthophagi Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2010 4. Setae sc 1 seta-like (Iran, phoretic on O. vitulus Fabricius)................................................................................................... (setiformis species group), P. setiformis Loghmani & Hajiqanbar, 2013
- Setae sc 1 as capitate trichobothria....................................................(fusiformis species group) 5
5. Some setae on tarsi I (pv’, pv”, u’, u”) and II (pv’, pv”, u’, tc”) modified, lanceolate (Iran, phoretic on Scarabaeus pius (Illiger)) .......................................................... P. lanceolata Bahramian & Hajiqanbar, 2015
- Setae on tarsi I-II not modified, seta-like................................................................... 6
6. Setae h 2 less than three times longer than h 1; setae h 1 longer than e (Ukraine, Slovakia, phoretic on Copris lunaris L.)..................................................................................... P. riparia Sevastianov, 1980
- Setae h 2 four to five times longer than h 1; setae h 1 shorter than or subequal to e ..................................... 7
7. Setae e as long as f; setae on epimeres II subequal (Tajikistan, phoretic on Onthophagus sp.).................................................................................................... P. tadjikistanica Sevastianov, 1980
- Setae f longer than e; setae on epimeres II not subequal........................................................ 8
8. Setae f slightly (at most 1.35 times) longer than e; distance d -d twice as long as setae d (Iran, phoretic on Euoniticellus fulvus (Goeze)) ............................................................ P. khiavensis Sobhi & Hajiqanbar sp. nov.
- Setae f at least twice longer than e; distance d -d distinctly more than two times longer than setae d ..................... 9
9. Setae c 2 longer than c 1; setae sc 2 more than two times longer than c 1 (Italy, phoretic on Scarabaeus sacer L.).......................................................................................... P. fusiformis Lombardini, 1949
- Setae c 1 longer than c 2; setae sc 2 less than two times longer than c 1 (Iran, phoretic on Scarabaeus spp.)....................................................................................... P. kamalii Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2010
description: Published as part of Sobhi, Mohammad, Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza & Mortazavi, Azim, 2017, New species and records of heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Heterostigmata) phoretic on scarabaeid dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from northwestern Iran, pp. 427-434 in Zootaxa 4276 (3) on pages 431-432, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/807016