گزارش میزبان جدید برای گونه (Acari: Erythraeidae) Charletonia behshahrensis

Abstract
Parasitengona mites belong to Trombidiformes order and Prostigmata suborder and include one of the largest groups of Acari. They have more than 9000 species and are divided into two ecological groups, aquatic and terrestrial. There are 8 families in the terrestrial group. One of these superfamilies is Erythraeoidea, that two families Erythraeidae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1828 and Smarididae Vitzthum, 1929 are present in this superfamily. The genus Charletonia Oudemans, 1910 with 86 described species belongs to the Erythraeidae family and was divided into three morpho-groups and seven subgroups. The species C. behshahrensis Hakimitabar and Saboori, 2014 belongs to the berlesiana species group and species subgroup, which has the following characters: two setae between coxae II and III and solenidion on distal half of the Genu I. This species was collected and described for the first time in 2014 from Behshahr city, Mazandaran province, Iran, ectoparasite on Tettigonia sp. (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigonidae). During the study of the habitat modeling of the Moroccan locust using biophysical indicators extracted from satellite images, from Golestan province, Gonbadkavos city, Karand region, in the spring of 1403, this species was collected from the short-horned grasshopper Sphingonotus rubescens (Walker, 1870) (Insecta: Orthoptera: Acrididae). The specimens Cleared in Lactic acid and finally mounted on micro-scopic slides using Faure’smedium. The host species is new for this species. It seems that this species does not have a special host specialization and is found as an ectoparasite on various species of the Orthoptera which, of course, requires more sampling in the northern regions, especially in the Golestan and western regions of Mazandaran province.