Ali Ahadiyat

• Ph.D.
• Professor (Assistant) at Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch Tehran Iran

The efficiency of pistachio nuts was investigated on the multiplication of Ectomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller) (Lep: Pyralidae) by rearing a cohort of 61 eggs individually at 26 ± 1 ℃, 60 ± 10% RH, and 16:8 h L:D. The age-stage two-sex life table theory and bootstrapping were used to analyze the data. The survival probability from a newly born egg to l...

The new, second ever known record of Tarsonemus (Schaarschmidtia) populi from Iran is reported. The new family of insect hosts (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is revealed for the first time for the mites of the family Tarsonemidae. New records of the subgenus are presented, and phoretic mite-beetle associations are discussed.

Excessive utilization of chemical pesticides for pest control can lead to adverse consequences for the health of humans and other organisms and may also cause irreversible ecological changes; therefore, the use of biologically derived insecticides can be a safe alternate strategy. Transcriptomic studies have shown JFTX- 23,a small peptide from the...

We provide the first descriptions of the male of Hypoaspis maryamae Joharchi and Halliday and heteromorphic male of Cosmolaelaps rectangularis Sheals, collected on scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and from a Lasius sp. nest (Formicidae), respectively, in Taleqan, Iran. Moreover, we supplement the description of female Hypoaspis maryamae wi...

The faunistic investigation of beetles has been of a great importance in Iran due to the impresive diversity of species, which is highly promoted by the climatic variation of the Country. Therefore, detection of the ingenious regions, such as Taleqan, is important. In this study, mite-related beetles which were sampled from different areas of Taleq...

To the memory of dear Hamid.

In this research, a new species Proctotydaeus hajiqanbari Darbemamieh, Ahadiyat & Farmahiny-Farahani sp. nov. is described from the galleries of two pest bark beetles Scolytus amygdali Guérin-Méneville and Orthotomicus erosus (Wollaston) from Iran. Mentioned galleries collected from damaged apricot and pine trees in Tehran province.

The present paper lists all reports and descriptions of mites in the superfamily Tydeoidea previously reported in Iran, adding new data provided by new collections and studies. The distribution and habitats of each species in Iran are provided, as well. This list is composed of 63 species from 20 genera in 4 families.

Abiotic factors, such as temperature, humidity, soil elements, along with biotic factors affect terrestrial arthropod communities. Since the application of agricultural fertilizers with the entrance of different elements causes changes in the soil physicochemical conditions, fertilizers may cause fluctuation in the population density of edaphic art...

A new species of zerconid mites, Prozercon caspiansis sp. nov. is described based on female, male, and protonymph specimens collected from different forestland areas in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran. In addition, the male and larval specimens of P. dominiaki Błaszak were found in the same region and described for the first time. An updated key...

The Moroccan locust, Dociostaurus maroccanus (Thunberg), is an agricultural pest which has caused considerable agricultural damage and economic importance. α-/β-Glucosidases and α-/β-Galactosidases are essential enzymes in the carbohydrate digestion of insect pest. Characterization of digestive enzymes is essential for gathering knowledge to produc...

The greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), is one of the most important pests of greenhouse crops. The intensive use of chemical insecticides has resulted in insecticide resistance in T. vaporariorum and the critical level of pesticides residue in crops. It is therefore necessary to develop new control met...

A new pachylaelapid mite species of the genus Onchodellus, O. masani sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on female specimens from Iran. The new species is compared with congeneric species with shortened peritremes. The new regional distributions for three examined species, Onchodellus hispani (Berlese), O. karawaiewi (Berlese), and O. stri...

The development of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction using degenerate primers against conserved regions of most potyviral genomes enabled sampling of the potyvirome. However, these assays usually involve sampling potential host plants, but identifying infected plants when they are asymptomatic is challenging , and many plants, especia...

A new species of Olopachys Berlese, Olopachys (Olopachys) magnoexudatus sp. nov., is described herein, based on female specimens collected from soil and litter in the natural forests of Behshahr, Mazandaran Province, Iran. All previous records of Olopachys species in Iran are reviewed and discussed, and an identification key to the five Iranian spe...

Adamystis ekaterinae Ghasemi-Moghadam & Saboorisp. nov. is described and illustrated based on adult females collected from soil in the Chitgar Forest Park, Iran. This new species is distinguished by having dimpled vacuoles between sci and sce on lateral propodosoma; one pair of eyes associated with postocular bodies; smooth dorsal idiosomal shield;...

The red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) is the most destructive pest of palm trees. In this research, the anti-ovipositon effect of the leaf extracts of 3 plant species, including Rhazya stricta Decne. (Apocynacea), Ferula assa-foetida L. (Apiaceae) and Azadirachta indica A. Juss. (Meliaceae), together with three plant volatile com...

Aphids have serious damage and well known of the most important pests, which may transmit different viruses on potato. Potato has immense significance as a food crop throughout the world. In the last research, the most important and different aspects of predominant potato varieties; Agria, Arinda, Fontane, Banba and Sante were studied during 2015–2...

A new species, Olopachys iraniensis n. sp. (Mesostigmata: Pachylaelapidae) is described based on adult females collected from soil in Guilan Province, northern Iran. Two identification keys are provided, one for all known species of Olopachys, and the other for species recorded from Iran. A brief review on pachylaelapid mites of Iran is also provid...

Potato as a valuable agricultural product has some injurious pests. In a research, we compared the important aphids abundance in two parts of Iran. Collection of aphids was carried out by yellow water trap and aphid/leaf count methods every week in 2015-2016. We selected seed potato fields with five distances (0, 100, 200, 400, 500m) from viral pla...

To examine the effect of Citrus Red Mite (CRM) damage on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of Thomson navel orange Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck, paired-treatment experiment, multiple treatment experiment, and regression/correlation methods were used. There were significant differences among the treatments in paired-treatment and multiple...

Abstract To determine the most appropriate concentration and application time of mineral oil against Pulvinaria aurantii Cockerell, the reaction rate of egg hatching and the emergence of mobile cushion citrus instars to different concentrations of mineral oil in the laboratory conditions with a temperature of 4 ± 25 °C, relative humidity 5 ± 75...

In our study of the pachylaelapid mites from Iran, a new remarkable species, Pachylaelaps (Pachylaelaps) prodigiosus sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on adult stages found in soil detritus of broadleaved deciduous forest habitats. The sperm induction system detected in females of the new species is unusual in having its tubular structur...

Mites of the family Pachylaelapidae Berlese, 1913 are a group of predatory mites with free-living species, feeding on arthropods and soil-inhabiting nematodes. Identification of these mites is difficult, because of morphological similarities in a significant number of species and also the fact that new taxons descriptors have referred to some morph...

Citrus red mite (CRM), Panonychus citri (McGregor) (Acari: Tetranychidae) is one of the important citrus pests in different parts of the world including northern Iran. Population fluctuation and spatial distribution pattern of this pest was studied in Ghaemshahr, northern Iran during 2016-2017 in different initial infestation treatments (paired-tre...

Species of zerconid mites (family Zerconidae) are free-living predators and spread in the Palaearctic and Nearctic regions. On the contrary of some other mesostigmatic families, members of the family Zerconidae are little known in Iran. As a contribution to the knowledge of Iranian Zerconidae, current species list of the family is presented herein.

Phenoloxidase (PO) plays a key role in insects’ immunological and physiological processes. In this study, PO from hemolymph of Dociostaurus maroccanus, which is an important pest of crops in the world, is purified in three steps: ammonium sulfate precipitation, gel-filtration and ion-exchange chromatography. The biochemical properties of PO were ch...

The inclination of rice growers towards double cropping system in north of Iran has raised new concerns about the excessive release of broad-spectrum pesticides, particularly organophosphates, in the environment. In this study, the efficiency of three insecticides and an integrated pest management (IPM) program for management of the striped rice st...

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 id...

In this study, we reported the presence of six zerconid species belonging to two genera (Prozercon and Zercon) which were collected between May 2014 and November 2015 from East Azerbaijan and Lorestan Provinces of Iran. Of these, Prozercon bircanae, Zercon colligans, Z. notabilis, and Z. turcicus are newly recorded for the Iran acarofauna. Some kno...

The authors report on the presence of species of the family Tarsonemidae in association with three bark beetle species (Orthotomicus erosus (Wollaston, 1857), Scolytus scolytus (Fabricius, 1775), and S. multistriatus (Marsham, 1802)) in two provinces in Central and Northern Iran. The following mite species are new for the fauna of Iran: Heterotarso...

During an investigation on phoretic mite associates of the red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, in Sistan and Balouchestan Province of Iran, two uropodine species were collected and identified as Centrouropoda almerodai (Uropodidae) and Uroobovella marginata (Dinychidae). This is the first record of the genus Centrouropoda from Iran and the...

Tetranychoid communities from urban landscapes of Tehran area were compared in 2012. The landscapes covering two main climates of Tehran Province and the related regions were mostly planted with Ulmus, Platanus, Ficus and Morus trees. A total of 259 mite specimens, belonging to two families, were collected. Cenopalpus meyerae was the dominant speci...

Two new species of mites of the genus Zygoseius Berlese, Z. papaver sp. n. and Z. lindquisti sp. n., collected from moss and flood debris, respectively, in a creek in Chiapas State, Mexico, are described herein.

An α-amylase with molecular weight of 73 kDa was purified from midgut of Dociostaurus maroccanus using ammonium sulfate precipitation, gel filtration, and ion exchange chromatography. The optimal pH and temperature were 6 and 45 °C, respectively. As calculated using Lineweaver–Burk plots, the Km was about 0.62 mM and the Vmax was 1.113 (μmol/min/mg...

A faunistic survey was carried out on edaphic mites of the cohort Gamasina in the Ecological (Botanical) Garden of Nowshahr, Mazandaran Province, Iran. The samples were taken randomly from different habitats since February 2014 to January 2015. A total of 458 specimens belonging to 34 species, 20 genera, 12 families and five superfamilies were coll...

Pachyseius masanisimilis Ahadiyat and Ghasemi Moghadam sp. nov. is described based on female specimens collected from soil, leaf litter and humus of fruit trees in highland areas of north part of Tehran Province of Iran.

During investigations on mites associated with fruit and pine tree bark beetles in Alborz and Tehran Provinces, six species of oribatid mites, belonging to five families, were found during 2001–2002 and 2006–2010 and identified. The species and their families are as follows: Paraleius leontonychus (Hemileiidae), Oribatula (Zygoribatula) skrjabini,...

The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae is an important pest because of the word wide distribution, extensive host range, severe damage, great rate of population growth and ability in creating resistance against pesticides. In the present study, the acaricidal effect of the essential oils of two plant species, Pimpinella anisum L. and Satu...

Leptus (Leptus) delijanensis Khademi, Saboori & Hakimitabar sp. n. (Acari: Erythraeidae) is described and illustrated from larva ectoparasitic on undetermined grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Delijan, Markazi Province, Iran. It is the first report of Leptus species with solenidion of TFe I from Asia. A key to larval species of Leptus with s...

There is a great deal of diversity among phoretic association particularly in mesostigmatic mites that exploited insect host to complete their dispersal strategy. Similarly, the red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, also has been used as a carrier by the phoretic mites. In this study, we found Centrouropoda almerodai (Uropodidae), Macrocheles...

Following of a survey in 1391 which was conducted on the edaphic mites’ fauna in Lavij Region of Nour County in Mazandaran Province, numerous species of the family Laelapidae were collected and identified. For this purpose, samplings were randomly taken from soil, humus and litter from different regions. After transferring the materials to the labo...

Mesostigmatic mite species from Turkey

Abstract In agroecosystems, potential species distribution models are extensively applied in pest management strategies, revealing species ecological requirements and demonstrating relationships between species distribution and predictive variables. The Maximum Entropy model was used to predict the potential distribution of five heteropteran key pe...

Mesostigmatid mites from Turkey

Spider mites are considered one of the major pests of green spaces, in Iran and other parts of the world, which cause severe damage to ornamental plants in Tehran. Phytoseiid mites are also known as the most important natural enemies of spider mite in many habitats. In order to study mite pests and their natural enemies in green spaces of performed...

Mites of the family Laelapidae are widely distributed in the world. Many species of this family are free living mites or are associated with arthropods, mammals, or birds. This family comprises nine subfamilies, among them there are some predators living in soil, litter or in the nests of vertebrates or invertebrates. Also, some species are conside...

According to the importance of non-chemical controlling methods based on integrated pest managment, Beauveria bassiana was considered as a pathogen of the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi. In this study, the pathogenicity effects of some Iranian isolates of B. bassiana against adult aphids were evaluated using the spray bioassay method. Se...

MODELING AND PREDICTING THE POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION OF FOUR HETEROPTERAN PREDATORS IN IRAN Samaneh Solhjouyefard1, Alimorad Sarafrazi2, Mehdi Moeini Minbashi3and Ali Ahadiyat1 1Department of Entomology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, e-mail: s.solhjouyefard@srbiau.ac.ir, a.ahadiyat@srbiau.ac.ir 2Department of...

Willow and poplar lace-bug, Monosteira unicostata, is considered as an important pest of willow and and causes serious damages directly on leaves and indirectly on timbers quality and quantity of willow and poplar species and clones in Iran. Antixenosis resistance of 11 willow species including Salix acmophylla, S. aegyptiaca, S. alba, S. elbursens...

Antixenosis component of resistance in poplar species and clones (Populus spp.) to the willow and poplar lace-bug, Monosteira unicostata (Mulsant & Rey) (Hemiptera: Tingidae). Munis Entomology & Zoology, 5, suppl.: 1125-1135] ABSTRACT: During the year 2007, antixenosis resistance mechanism of 4 poplar species, including Populus alba, P. deltoides,...

Tarsonemus amygdali n. sp. (Acari, Tarsonemidae) is described and illustrated based on the material of females and a male. This new species was found in galleries of the bark beetle Scolytus amygdali (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scolytidae), infesting plum and apricot trees in Iran. The systematic position of the new species and its biogeography are brief...

In 2006 investigations of psocid species in the north of Iran revealed 2 species identified as Ectopsocus briggsi McLachlan from Ectopsocidae and Trichopsocus dalii (McLachlan) from Trichopsocidae both in the suborder Psocomorpha. This is the first record of the suborder, these 2 families, genera, and species for the insect fauna of Iran. Also, thi...