| abstract | In the present study three water mite species of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 are reported from Iran. Atractides yazdensis sp. nov., is decribed as new for science; the hitherto unknown females of A. elburzensis Pešić, Smit & Saboori, 2014 and A. bakhtiari Pešić, Asadi & Saboori, 2016 are described. |