This paper presents an updated checklist of the water mites of Iran, including detailed data on their occurrence across the provinces. The revised fauna comprises 209 species belonging to 55 genera within 26 families. Compared to the previous checklist published in 2014, 16 species new to science have been described from Iran, including six cryptic species discovered primarily through DNA barcoding. Concurrently, at least 18 species occasionally reported for the fauna of Iran are excluded from the current checklist due to recent taxonomic and molecular revisions, along with the descriptions of new species, indicating they do not occur in the country. Furthermore, one species new to science, Hygrobates saboori n. sp., is described, and two species are newly recorded for the Iranian water mite fauna: Mixobates incurvatus (Láska, 1954) and Parabrachypoda orientalis (Pešić & Esen, 2013). By presenting this updated catalogue, this study resolves taxonomic confusion stemming from outdated nomenclature and taxonomic changes over the last decade, providing a crucial baseline to stimulate further research of the water mites in Iran.
A new species of the genus Trinodes Dejean, 1821 of the tribe Trinodini (Dermestidae) is described from late Eocene Danish amber. The new species differs from T. puetzi Háva et Prokop, 2006 in its bigger body size, antennomere 11 being slightly shorter than antennomeres 8–10 combined, and its broader body shape. A key to the species of Trinodes known from Eocene amber is provided. A checklist of the Eocene amber Dermestidae is compiled.
A new species, Leistus (Pogonophorus) setosus sp. nov., is described from the western part of the Kyrgyz Alatau Mountain Range (Jambyl Region, Southern Kazakhstan). This species is unique in the genus due to the presence of numerous additional setae on head, pronotum and elytra.
A new subspecies, Carabus (Cratophyrtus) nikolajevi ayrandyensis ssp. nov., is described from the Ayrandy River Valley, northern slopes of the Kyrgyz Alatau Mountain Range, Southern Kazakhstan. It easily differs from the nominotypical subspecies its relatively flattened body, proportionally narrower elytra, reddish tibiae and tarsi usually contrasting with black femora, and protarsomere 4 of male normally lacking adhesive vestiture ventrally.
We present an integrative taxonomic and bionomic investigation of two data-deficient case-bearer moths, Coleophora chrysanthemi Hofmann, 1869 and Coleophora ptarmicia Walsingham, 1910, from Hungarian xerothermic habitats. Based on light-trap samples and reared larvae, we report two new host plants, Achillea millefolium L., 1753 and Artemisia absinthium L., 1753, for C. chrysanthemi. For C. ptarmicia, we identify Achillea ochroleuca Ehrh., 1792 as a novel host plant and elucidate its univoltine development and L1-stage overwintering. To resolve taxonomic uncertainties in international sequence databases, particularly the confusion between C. ptarmicia and the recently described C. trinacriae, we provide detailed descriptions of genital morphology supplemented with COI barcode data, and document the larval cases of C. ptarmicia and C. chrysanthemi. Our findings facilitate precise species identification and emphasize the conservation value of vulnerable xerothermic habitats.
