Preliminary study of oribatid mites(Acari: oribatida) in Assaluyeh and Lengeh ports, Iran

During 2008-2009, in oribatid mites study of south of Iran, six genera belonging to six families were collected that five specimens were identified at level of species. Among which, three genera and two species that marked by an asterisk are recorded for the first time from Iran. The species of Hypozetes translamellatus has the most numerically specimens in sampling sites. The family of Scheloribatidae (Scheloribates sp.) has the highest total identified species. Acording to sampling data the families of Scheloribatidae, Tegoribatidae and Oribatulidae have the highest distribution in sampling sites respectively. Scientific name of each genus and species is presented: Heptacarus
sp., (Lohmanniidae); Damaeolus asperatus
(Berlese, 1904), (Damaeolidae); Oribatula (Zygoribatula) undulata Berlese, 1916, (Oribatulidae); Scheloribates fimbriatus Thor, 1930. S. praeincisus (Berlese, 1910), (Scheloribatidae); Hypozetes
translamellatus
Wallwork, 1965, (Tegoribatidae); Lamellobates
sp., (Mycobatidae).