Paktinat-Saeej Saeed, Bagheri Mohammad, Saboori Alireza, Ahaniazad Mansoureh
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran.; Email:
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Sep 11;4013(4):519-30. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.3.
Two new Bdellidae, Biscirus iranensis Paktinat-Saeej & Bagheri sp. nov. and Bdella farabii Paktinat-Saeej & Bagheri sp. nov., are described from northern Iran. The monotypic genus Neobiscirus considered a junior synonym of Biscirus, and its only species therefore considered Biscirus kobachidzei (Gomelauri, 1963) comb. nov.