Ahmad Atamehr

• PhD
• Research Assistant at Islamic Azad University Ardabil

The Carabidae family (Coleoptera) is among the dominant groups of terrestrial predators and includes more than 40,000 species worldwide, making it one of the largest families of beetles. The fauna of Carabidae in Azarbaijan, Iran, is very diverse and has not been studied thoroughly. In the following paper, this group of beneficial predators is stud...

The Laelapidae is a large family of worldwide distribution. Many of its species are ectoparasite of mammals, arthropods and birds. Some of laelapid mites are free living predators in soil habitats. During 2010, the mites of Laelapidae were collected and identified in soil and plant debris of apple orchards of Salmas region in West Azarbaijan. The m...

During 2010, the mites of order Mesostigmata were collected and identified in sunflower fields of Khoy region in West Azarbaijan. The mites were extracted with a Berlese funnel. They were cleared in Nesbitt's solution and were mounted in Hoyer's medium on microscope slides. In this study, 13 species belong to 12 genera and 10 families were identifi...

Mites of the family Phytoseiidae are effective natural enemies of plant-feeding mites, e.g. spider and eriophyid mites. Some of them are successfully used in biological control programs. During 2010, phytoseiid mites were collected and identified on leaves, soil and plant debris of apple orchards of Salmas region in West Azarbaijan. The mites were...

Detection function analysis of multivariate statistical analysis methods that can test the accuracy of the results of statistical analysis used. For this experiment using 15 genotypes of durum wheat was conducted in Ardabil region. Break detection function used for genotype showed that the first function, 4 / 89 percent of total first and second fu...

There are many studies on aquatic insects in the world but they didn't work a lot in Iran. Haliplidae is a family of aquatic insects (Coleoptera: Adephaga) that didn't study before a lot. This family of insects is not too popular, so finding it is not very easy. In 2000-2008, the water beetle fauna from 2 sampling sites was studied on this family....

Ourina 1995-1997, a faunislic survey wu carried out on spider mites and their pred.'lc:tous mites in Urmieh region, Iran. A Iota\ of 15 species belonging to 7 fami lies and 13 J:,.>encra were collected and identified, of which one genus and species is a new record for Iran (marked by two asierisks). and 6 species art: new records for West Azt:rbaij...

During a faunistic survery on aquatic beetles in Ardebil vicinity {Iran) in 2003, 1nany specimens \Vere collected and identified. Haliplus heydeni Wehncke, 1875. is recorded for the first ti1ne of Iran. The specin1ents \Vere identified at genus level and sent to Dr. Bernhard van Vondel (Netherland) for further confinnation and identification.The sp...

Grandjeanella kamalii sp. nov. (Acari: Erythraeidae) is described from larvae as free-living on Phaseulus vulgaris L. (Fabaceae) from Uromieh, Iran. A key to world species of Grandjeanella Southcott, 1961 is presented.

Leptus zhangi sp. nov. (Acari: Erythraeidae) is described and illustrated from larvae ectoparasitic on Hyponomeuta malinella(Lepidoptera: Hyponomeutidae) from Uromieh, Iran.