Tarsonemus fusarii Coorman 1941
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 fusarii

description: Tarsonemus fusarii Coorman, 1941
Material examined: 1 female, Marand, Osdaghi village commune, 38°24'38"N, 45°52'01"E, 1,485 m. a.s.l., ex soil, 25-April-2014; 6 females, Marand, Ordaklu village commune, 38°25'23"N, 45°50'17"E, 1,406 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 25-April-2014; 1 female, Marand, Yam village commune, 38°20'29"N, 45°51'54"E, 1,742 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 25-April-2014; 1 female, Marand, Yam village commune, 38°21'12"N, 45°47'17"E, 1,727 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 25-April-2014; 8 females, Marand, Alinja village commune, 38°25'54"N, 46°00'06"E, 1,785 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 25-April-2014; 4 females, Marand, Yamchi town commune, 38°30'37"N, 45°39'37"E, 1,331 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 23-May-2014; 1 female, 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; 33 females, Marand city commune, 38°25'56"N, 45°45'16"E, 1,404 m.a.s.l., ex litter and soil, 8-August-2014; 4 females, Marand city commune, 38°25'56"N, 45°45'16"E, 1,404 m.a.s.l., ex dew melon leaves, 8-August -2014; 2 females, Zunuz, Chichir village commune, 38°33'54"N, 45°43'35"E, 1,429 m.a.s.l., ex apple leaves, 15-August-2014; 12 females, Marand city commune, 38°25'56"N, 45°45'16"E, 1,404 m.a.s.l., ex cherry leaves, 12-September-2014; 6 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, Sar village commune, 38°20'51"N, 46°06'18"E, 1,624 m.a.s.l., ex Russian olive leaves, 10-October-2014; 1 female, Sufiyan, Ivand village commune, 38°22'04"N, 46°07'28"E, 1,710 m.a.s.l., ex soil and litter, 10-October-2014; 2 females, 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: Cosmopolitan.
Remarks: Previous records from Iran: Mazandaran (associated with Citrus spp., Faraji & Kamali 1993; T. sp. cf. fusarii, associated with tea plants Camellia sinensis L., Taghavi et al. 1998); Hamadan (Hamadan and Tuyserkan, associated with clover Trifolium sp., Razan county, associated with apple, Khanjani 1996; Khanjani & Kamali 2000); Khorasan (T. sp. cf. fusarii, Aphodius (Chilothorax) melanostictus Schmidt (Col.: Scarabaeidae), Hajiqanbar 2009); East Azerbaijan (Shabestar, the soil of alfalfa cultivations, Lotfollahi & Haddad Irani-Nejad 2010), Tehran (Scolytus multistriatus (Marsh.) (Col.: Scolytidae), elm trees, Magowski et al. 2017).
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 pages 28-29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1437344