Introducing some of Arasbaran region’s oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), with new records for Iran’s and East Azerbaijan Province fauna

oribatid mites are a group of arthropods that have had remarkable evolutionary success with regard to species richness and variety of habitats colonized. they havesuccessfully invaded all compartments of the biosphere; and one can find severalhundred thousand oribatid mites per square meter in the organic layers of temperateforest soil, represented by more than 100 species (lebrun & van straalen 1995).according to the present literature, major faunistic studies of oribatid mites in iran arelimited to mazandaran and guilan provinces (northern iran) (akrami & saboori 2012;akrami & doryanizadeh 2013; mortazavi et al. 2010, 2011); east azerbaijan and west