Abstract

A new species of the sand-mite or chigger Schoengastia Oudemans, 1910 collected from the soil under camel’s thorn ( Alhagi maurorum Medik) in Iran is described. The diagnosis of the new species is in conformity with the subgenus Priomesochela Vercammen-Grandjean et Langston, 1976, the specific characters are drip-dropping shaped sensilla, shortest scutal setae and least number in idiosomal setae in the subgenus.

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