Tarsonemus waitei Banks 1912
Creators: name: Gheblealivand, Saeide S.
name: Irani-Nejad, Karim Haddad
name: Magowski, Wojciech Ł.
name: Manzari, Shahab
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Tarsonemidae
Tarsonemus
Tarsonemus waitei

description: Tarsonemus waitei Banks, 1912
Material examined. 3 female, Jolfa, Siahrood town commune, 38°53'44"N, 45°51'15"E, 827 m. a. s.l., ex litter and soil, 26-March-2014; 5 females, Marand, Ordaklu village commune, 38°25'23"N, 45°50'17"E, 1,406 m. a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 25-April-2014; 5 females, Marand, Alinja village commune, 38°25'54"N, 46°00'06"E, 1,785 m. a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 25-April-2014; 17 females, Marand, Bangin village commune, 38°27'00"N, 45°50'24"E, 1,375 m. a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 23-May-2014; 4 females, Marand, Farfar village commune, 38°28'41"N, 45°41'08"E, 1,276 m. a.s.l., ex apricot leaves, 23-May-2014; 11 females, Marand, Yamchi town commune, 38°30'37"N, 45°39'37"E, 1,263 m.a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 23-May-2014; 3 females, Marand, Dovlat–Abad village commune, 38°26'59"N, 45°49'46"E, 1,385 m. a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 23-May-2014; 4 females, Jolfa, Kordasht village commune, 38°50'10"N, 46°13'43"E, 724 m.a.s.l., ex pomegranate leaves, 29-May-2014; 1 female, Jolfa, Gordian plain commune, 38°52'33"N, 45°42'26"E, 970 m. a.s.l., ex apricot leaves, 29-May-2014; 2 females, Jolfa, Siahrood town commune, 38°52'17"N, 46°01'29"E, 767 m.a.s.l., ex soil, 30-May-2014; 5 females, Jolfa, Novje–Mehr village commune, 38°52'16"N, 46°01'34"E, 1,064 m. a.s.l., ex mulberry leaves, 30-May-2014; 1 female, Jolfa, Iri village commune, 38°46' 35"N, 45°59'51"E, 1,085 m.a.s.l., ex apricot leaves, 30-May-2014; 3 females, Marand, Eysh– Abad village commune, 38°22'21"N, 45°36'47"E, 1,752 m. a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 27-June-2014; 1 female, Marand, Shurdaraq village commune, 38°20'47"N, 45°53'28"E, 1,655 m. a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 27-June-2014; 2 females, Marand, Seyvan village commune, 38°20'59"N, 45°47'48"E, 1,857 m. a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 27-June-2014; 5 females, Marand city commune, 38°25'56"N, 45°45'16"E, 1,404 m. a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 8-August-2014; 26 females, Zunuz, Chirchir village commune, 38°33'54"N, 45°43'35"E, 1429 m. a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 15-August- 2014; 3 females, Sufiyan, Ivand village commune, 38°19'58"N, 46°07'03"E, 1,587 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 10- October-2014; 1 female, Marand, Yekankahriz village commune, 38°40'15"N, 45°23'52"E, 1,376 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 24-October-2014; all coll. S. Gheblealivand.
Distribution. Holarctic; probably cosmopolitan.
Remarks. Previous records from Iran: Markazi (Saveh, associated with pomegranate trees, Sorush 1994); Tehran, Kermanshah, Yazd (in all locations collected from waste in beehives foam, Bahreini et al. 1997); Kurdistan (associated with strawberry cultivations, Mansour Ghazi et al. 2006); Tehran (Malard research station, Mirjamali et al. 2008); East Azerbaijan (Sufiyan, the soil of alfalfa cultivations, Lotfollahi & Haddad Irani-Nejad 2010).
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 13-38 in Zootaxa 4446 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1437344