M. Khalili, M. Rezaei, B. Akhtardanesh, Zeinab Abiri, Shima Shahheidaripour
{"title":"Detection of Coxiella burnetii (Gammaproteobacteria: Coxiellaceae) in ticks collected from infested dogs in Kerman, Southeast of Iran","authors":"M. Khalili, M. Rezaei, B. Akhtardanesh, Zeinab Abiri, Shima Shahheidaripour","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V7I1.30699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V7I1.30699","url":null,"abstract":"Q fever, as one of the tick-borne zoonotic diseases, is caused by Coxiella burnetii . Ticks may play an important role in C. burnetii transmission to animals and humans. By using nested Trans-PCR, we investigated the presence of C. burnetii in ticks collected from dogs in Kerman, southeast of Iran. A total of 375 ticks were randomly collected from 100 dogs. Eight pools were finally formed. The pools of tick samples were assessed for the presence of C. burnetii . Genomic DNA extraction was done and samples were evaluated by nested Trans-PCR. All tick specimens were identified as Rhipicephalus sanguineus regarding the taxonomical characteristics. Coxiella burnetii was detected in 1 out of 8 (12.5%) pool samples. One positive sample was subjected to sequence analysis, which successfully confirmed the accuracy of the PCR assay. Our data show that ticks infesting dogs can be infected by C. burnetii , providing zoonotic importance of these populations. Efforts should be focused on understanding the role and epidemiologic importance of dogs and their ticks, especially for human Q fever, which can be a life-threatening disease.","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22073/PJA.V7I1.30699","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47682191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hakimitabar, A. Saboori, Hossein Mokhtarisaaveh
{"title":"New morphological data and new host record of Lasioerythraeus saboorii (Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae) from Iran","authors":"M. Hakimitabar, A. Saboori, Hossein Mokhtarisaaveh","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V7I1.34679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V7I1.34679","url":null,"abstract":"Lasioerythraeus saboorii Khanjani, Raisi & Izadi was described and illustrated based on larvae ectoparasitic on Aphis punicae (Passerini) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) from Boshrouyeh, Ferdows city, South Khorasan Province, Iran. In this paper, additional specimens were collected on unknown species of Chloropidae (Diptera) as host from Mahvelat City, Khorasan Razavi Province and additional metric data are provided. A revised key to world larval species of Lasioerythraeus is presented. Chloropidae is reported as a new host for the genus.","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22073/PJA.V7I1.34679","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48560000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A note on pesticide induced resurgence of two spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) on grape","authors":"Chandragouda Patil, S. Udikeri, S. Karabhantanal","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V7I1.27987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V7I1.27987","url":null,"abstract":"Recently incidence of Tetranychus urticae is a widespread issue in grape orchards in India. The possibility of a pesticide induced resurgence of mites was explored by applying field recommended doses of commonly used pesticides. The field trial revealed no resurgence with respect to dicofol, abamectin, spiromecifen, dichlorovos + fish oil resin soap and dinocap usage consecutively. Sulphur induced heavy resurgence (16.55%) with resurgence ratio of 1.05, followed by thiamethoxam (8.89%), acetamiprid (6.97%), imidacloprid (6.15%) and buprofezin (5.46%) with resurgence ratios of 0.81, 0.89, 0.87, and 0.88 respectively.","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22073/PJA.V7I1.27987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44986905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acaricidal and repellent properties of some plant extracts against poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae (Mesostigmata: Dermanyssidae)","authors":"A. Rajabpour, A. Mashhadi, M. Ghorbani","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V7I1.34098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V7I1.34098","url":null,"abstract":"Poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae De Geer (Mesostigmata: Dermanyssidae), is an important pest of birds in avicultures and it is an economic, hygienic and epidemiologic problem in the poultry industry. Uses of botanical pesticides are good and safe alternatives instead of chemical compounds. In the present study acaricidal and repellency activities of Conocarpus erectus , Portulaca oleracea and Pistacia atlantica extracts were evaluated against D. gallinae by calculation LC 50 value and repellency index of each herbal extract in laboratory conditions and were compared with abamectin (a conventional chemical acaricide). However, all herbal extracts had less toxicity against the mite than abamectin. Aquatic and ethanolic extracts of C. erectus exhibited repellent for D. gallinae. The repellency effect was not observed in P. oleracea and P. atlantica extracts. Therefore, based on this experiment, it could be concluded that the aquatic and ethanolic extracts of C. erectus can be used as a safe botanical acaricide and repellent compound for control of D. gallinae in avicultures.","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22073/PJA.V7I1.34098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45462357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functional response and predation rate of Amblyseius swirskii (Acari: Phytosei-idae) at three constant temperatures","authors":"Ferdows Rafizadeh Afshar, M. Latifi","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V6I4.32392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.32392","url":null,"abstract":"Functional response and predation rate of Amblyseius swirskii (Athias-Henriot) on eggs of Tetranychus urticae Koch were determined on strawberry under laboratory conditions (70 ± 10% R.H. and 16L:8D h) and three constant temperatures of 25, 30 and 35°C. The type of functional response was affected by temperature. Type III functional response was determined for adult female of A. swirskii at 25°C, whereas type II was observed at 30 and 35°C. The longest handling time ( T h ) (0.6 ± 0.005) was observed at 25°C and the shortest handling time (0.46 ± 0.003) and higher attack rate ( a ) (0.56 ± 0.054) were observed at 35°C. Handling time ( T h ) decreased from 25 to 35°C. Temperature had a significant effect on the daily and total predation rates of each different stages: the predation rate increased from larva to adult and with temperature from 25 to 35°C, and the maximal value being reached at 35°C. The maximal predation capacity of female was about 40 eggs per day per females at 35°C. The results of this study showed the effect of temperature on functional response and predation rate of A. swirskii .","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.32392","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41569269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asadollah Hosseini Chegeni, Z. Telmadarraiy, M. Tavakoli, F. Faghihi
{"title":"Molecular detection of Borrelia anserina in Argas persicus (Acari: Argasidae) ticks collected from Lorestan province, west of Iran","authors":"Asadollah Hosseini Chegeni, Z. Telmadarraiy, M. Tavakoli, F. Faghihi","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V6I4.28372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.28372","url":null,"abstract":"Borrelia anserina is the agent of avian borreliosis, an acute septicemic disease of a variety of avian species in tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. Avian borreliosis is one of the most widespread poultry diseases in Iran, and is of great economic importance. The present study was designed to detect B. anserina in Argas persicus ticks. Specimens were collected from the cracks of aviary in Lorestan province of Iran. Then the salivary glands, ovaries and uterus of ticks were dissected to detect B. anserina within the specific organ using molecular methods. DNA was extracted by Phenol-chloroform method and then a fragment of flagellin gene ( fla B) of B. anserina was amplified by polymerase chain reaction. According to our results, the fla B target fragment was detected in Argas persicus ticks collected from Lorestan province. It seems that B. anserina is widely distributed in A. persicus vector ticks. Based on the result, B. anserina strain of Iran is similar to B. anserina fla B sequences reported from other parts the world.","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.28372","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42369660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farshad Masoudian, M. Khanjani, A. Saboori, K. H. Irani-nejad
{"title":"Ontogeny of Tyrophagus perniciosus Zakhvatkin (Acari: Acaridae) from Western Iran","authors":"Farshad Masoudian, M. Khanjani, A. Saboori, K. H. Irani-nejad","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V6I4.30042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.30042","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a re-description and description of all ontogenetic stages of the acarid mite, Tyrophagus perniciosus Zakhvatkin, 1941, collected from the soil and under forest trees litter in Hamedan province, Western Iran.","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46943566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana and its compatibility with Phytoseiulus persimilis (Acari: Phytoseiidae): Effects on Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae)","authors":"Marjan Seiedy, M. Moezipour","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V6I4.31645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.31645","url":null,"abstract":"Two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) is an economically important pest that devastates varieties of crops worldwide and develops significant resistance to common chemical pesticides. Ovicidal effects of two isolates of entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin (isolates F and J.B. ) were evaluated on the eggs of T. urticae using a spray method at 25 ± 2°C, 60–70٪RH and a photoperiod of 16:8 h (L: D). Egg mortality was determined by using different concentrations of conidia (1 × 10 3 , 1 × 10 4 , 1 × 10 5 , 1 × 10 6 , 1 × 10 7 , and 1 × 10 8 conidia / ml). Mortality was found to increase with time and was dependent on time and conidia concentration, ranging from 4.06% on day 3 at a concentration of 1 × 10 3 to 84.37% on day 7 at a concentration of 1 × 10 8 for the F isolate and from 1.87 to 65% for the J.B. isolate, respectively. This study also investigated the direct spray of the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana (isolates F and J.B .) on the predatory mite, Phytoseiulus persimilis (Athias-Henriot) under laboratory conditions. The predator adults were susceptible to isolate F (total mortality ± SE: 35 ± 1.97% on the seventh day) but least susceptible to isolate J.B. (total mortality ± SE: 27.25 ± 1.33% on the seventh day). Moreover, viability of P. persimilis after spraying fungal isolate of J.B. on bean leaf discs at three time intervals (0, 24 and 48 hours) showed no significant difference. Further knowledge is needed to adjust the timing of various releases of both biological control agents to obtain maximum effectiveness in the greenhouse with minimum impact of the fungus on the predator.","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.31645","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45583742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alireza Shabaninejad, B. Tafaghodinia, N. Zandi-Sohani
{"title":"Evaluation of geostatistical method and hybrid artificial neural network with imperialist competitive algorithm for predicting distribution pattern of Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) in cucumber field of Behbahan, Iran","authors":"Alireza Shabaninejad, B. Tafaghodinia, N. Zandi-Sohani","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V6I4.30295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.30295","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, the statistical methods and artificial neural network (ANN) were used to estimate the spatial distribution of Tetranychus urticae in cucumber field of Behbahan, Iran. Pest density assessments were performed following a 10 × 10 m 2 grid pattern on the field and a total of 100 sampling units on field. In both methods latitude and longitude information were used as input data and output of each methods showed number of pest. In Geostatistics methods ordinary kriging, and ANN with imperialist competitive algorithm were evaluated. Comparison of ANN and geostatistical showed that ANN capability is more than ordinary kriging method so that the ANN predicts distribution of this pest dispersion with 0.98 coefficient of determination and 0.0038 mean squares errors lower than the Geostatistical methods. In general, it can be concluded that the ANN with imperialist competitive algorithm approach with combining latitude and longitude can forecast pest density with sufficient accuracy. Our map showed that patchy pest distribution offers large potential for using site-specific pest control on this field.","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49441950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Mojahed, J. Hajizadeh, R. Hosseini, A. Ahadiyat
{"title":"Contribution to the Pachylaelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) fauna in some parts of Guilan province of Iran","authors":"S. Mojahed, J. Hajizadeh, R. Hosseini, A. Ahadiyat","doi":"10.22073/PJA.V6I4.29712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.29712","url":null,"abstract":"A faunistic study on the family Pachylaelapidae in forest and garden habitats from some regions in Guilan province, northern Iran, was carried out during 2015–2016. The samples were taken from soil, decaying organic matter, especially humus, rotten wood, moss and plant remains. A total of 10 species, belonging to three genera, were collected and identified, among them, Onchodellus squamosus Koroleva is newly recorded from Iran. Onchodellus and Pachylaelaps grandis Koroleva were considered as the most specious genus and the most frequent species, respectively. Some morphological characters and distributions of the species in Iran are discussed herein.","PeriodicalId":37567,"journal":{"name":"Persian Journal of Acarology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.22073/PJA.V6I4.29712","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41607355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}