Tarsonemus hermes Suski 1966
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 hermes

description: Tarsonemus hermes Suski, 1966
Material examined: 7 females, Marand, Osdaghi village commune, 38°24'38"N, 45°52'01"E, 1,485 m.a.s.l., ex soil, 25-April-2014; 1 female, Marand, Molla–Yusef village commune, 38°23'19"N, 45°45'37"E, 1,580 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 25-April-2014; 5 females, Marand, Bangin village commune, 38°27'00"N, 45°50'24"E, 1,375 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 23-May-2014; 4 females, Marand, Dovlat–Abad village commune, 38°27'01"N, 45°50'25"E, 1,533 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 23-May-2014; 1 female, Marand, Farfar village commune, 38°28'41"N, 45°41'08"E, 1,276 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 23-May-2014; 5 females, Marand, Bonab town commune, 38°25'32"N, 45°55'09"E, 1,513 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 29-May-2014; 3 females, Jolfa, Kordasht village commune, 38°50'10"N, 46°13'43"E, 720 m.a.s.l., ex soil, 29-May-2014; 3 females, Jolfa, Gordian plain commune, 38°52'33"N, 45°42'26"E, 970 m.a.s.l., ex apricot leaves, 29-May-2014; 1 female, Jolfa, Gordian plain commune, 38°53'13"N, 45°42'35"E, 962 m.a.s.l., ex soil, 29-May-2014; 1 female, Jolfa, Novje–Mehr village commune, 38°50'10"N, 46°13'44"E, 738 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 30-May-2014; 2 females, Jolfa, Aras river side, 38°53'25"N, 45°56'20"E, 763 m.a. s.l., ex litter and soil, 30-May-2014; 3 females, Marand, Shurdaraq village commune, 38°20'47"N, 45°53'28"E, 1,655 m. a.s.l., ex apricot leaves, 27-June-2014; 1 female, Marand, Seyvan village commune, 38°20'59"N, 45°47'48"E, 1,857 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 27-June-2014; 6 females, Zunuz, Daraq village commune, 38°35'54"N, 45°51'26"E, 1,846 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 15-August-2014; 4 females, Zunuz, Chirchir village commune, 38°33'54"N, 45°43'35"E, 1,429 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 15-August-2014; 1 female, Zunuz town commune, 38°36'11"N, 45°48'02"E, 1,598 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 15-August-2014; 4 females, Marand city commune, 38°25'56"N, 45°45'16"E, 1,404 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 12-September-2014; 1 female, Sufiyan, Torp village commune, 38°19'53"N, 46°08'55"E, 1,607 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 10-October- 2014; 6 females, Sufiyan, Torp village commune, 38°19'32"N, 46°08'26"E, 1,537 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 10- October-2014; 1 female, Sufiyan, Ivand village commune, 38°22'04"N, 46°07'28"E, 1,710 m. a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 10-October-2014; 3 females, Marand, Yekankahriz village commune, 38°40'15"N, 45°23'52"E, 1,376 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 24-October-2014; all coll. S. Gheblealivand.
Distribution: Palaearctic; probably cosmopolitan.
Remarks: Previous records for Iran: Mazandaran (associated with conifers, Barimani-Varandi & Kamali 1998).
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 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1437344