Tarbiat Modares University Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology 1680-7073 9 1 2007 01 01 Introduction of Twelve Species of Brachypyline Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida: Brachypylina) New Records for the Fauna of Iran 77 86 15437 EN M. A. Akrami Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. Journal Article During 1999-2002, in the course of a faunistic survey of oribatid mites of Iran, twelve species of higher or brachypyline oribatid mites (Brachypylina) belonging to eleven gen-era and seven families from various localities of Iran were collected: Aleurodamaeus* se-tosus (Aleurodamaeidae*); Licnobelba* alestensis (Licnobelbidae*); Licnodamaeus fissu-ratus, L. pulcherrimus (Licnodamaeidae); Damaeus* sp., Subbelba* sp., Belba* cf. minuta (Damaeidae); Damaeolus* cf. ornatissimus, Fosseremus quadripertitus (Damaeolidae); Ber-lesezetes aegypticus (Microzetidae); Galumna tarsipennata, Pilogalumna boevi (Galumni-dae). All the species, six genera and two families, that are the first recorded from Iran are marked by an asterisk. https://jast.modares.ac.ir/article_15437_f02b3153b7cd94c63d06aca54cb1e6e6.pdf