Neopetrobia ( Neopetrobia ) mcgregori ( Pritchard & Baker, 1955 )

Mahdavi, Sayed Mosayeb, Kazemi, Shahrooz, Mohammad-Doustaresharaf, Mojtaba & Asadi, Mahdieh, 2023, A new mite species of Pseudoleptus Bruyant (Tenuipalpidae), and two new records (Tetranychidae, Linotetranidae) reported from the Caspian Sea coasts in Iran, Zootaxa 5360 (3), pp. 419-428 : 421

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:72A83B11-CE4C-4BD1-BC14-D3A83EC88DF6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10247289
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scientific name	Neopetrobia ( Neopetrobia ) mcgregori ( Pritchard & Baker, 1955 )
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Neopetrobia ( Neopetrobia) mcgregori ( Pritchard & Baker, 1955) View in CoL

Monoceronychus mcgregori Pritchard & Baker, 1955 View in CoL . Neopetrobia mcgregori (Pritchard & Baker) View in CoL .

N. ( N.) mcgregori Pritchard & Baker (1955): 77 View in CoL . United States, ex. Stenotaphrum secundatum (Poaceae) View in CoL .

Material examined. One female was collected from Cynodon dactylon L. ( Poaceae ), near the Caspian Sea coast, Rezvanshahr, Gilan Province, Iran, 37° 34’ 21” N, 49° 11’ 50” E, 22 April 2021, coll. M.M. Khanzadeh.

Type depository. SBUK-No. Tet 34.

Note. This is the third report of N. ( N.) mcgregori for the world and the first report of the species from Iran. Except for the original description, this species has been recorded from C. dactylon in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ( Kamran et al. 2016). Previously, only two species of Neopetrobia have been recorded from Iran: N. ( Reckia) samgoriensis ( Reck, 1949) and N. ( N.) vediensis ( Bagdasarian, 1959) ( Mahdavi & Asadi, 2023) . There is no difference between the Iranian species and the original description.