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Acarus siro

Acarus siro

Linnaeus, 1758

GBIF:206289554

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Distribution in Iran – Generally distributed (Farahbakhsh 1961; Sepasgozarian 1971, 1977, 1978 a; Khalilmanesh 1973; Daneshvar 1978 a; Shahhosseini and Kamali 1989; Mehrnejad and Daneshvar 1990; Faraji 1993 a, b; Ostovan 1993; Mirfakhraii 1994; Mosaddegh 1997; Modarres Awal 1994, 1997), Fars Province: Region not mentioned (Ostovan 1993; Ardeshir and Khani 2015), Eest Azerbaijan and Razavi Khorasan Provinces: Region not mentioned (Ardeshir and Khani 2015), Mashhad (Khaleghabadian et al. 2012), Kordestan Province: Region not mentioned (Maroufpoor and Ostovan 2017), Tehran Province: Varamin (Ardeshir et al. 2006; Ardeshir and Khani 2015), Alborz Province: Karaj (Sayedi et al. 2006), Guilan Province: Masal, Sowme'eh Sara, Fuman (Noei 2007; Noei and Ostovan 2012), Mazandaran Province: Region not mentioned (Ardeshir 2011). General distribution – Cosmopolitan. Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, Poland, Primorskiy Kray, Scotland, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Wales (Hagstrum et al. 2013). Collection place (s) – Aquatic products, baby food, barley, barley sweeping, bean curd, beet seed, biscuit, bread, buckwheat, buckwheat product, cake, castor bean, cereal, cereal debris, cereal product, chaff, cheese, chicken feed, chicory, Chinese medicine, cinnamon, clover seed, coltsfood leaf and root, condiment, cottonseed, dill seed, dried fruit, dried vegetable, ergot, fenugreek, flax seed, fodder waste, grain, grain residue, grass seed, halva, hay, hemp seed, herb, kale seed, kohlrabi seed, lentil, lettuce seed, linseed, maize, lupine seed, maize groat, meat (dried), milk (dried), mint leaf, mushroom, nettle leaf, oat, oat flake, offal, oilseed cake, onion seed, pea (dried), pea flour, peanut, poppy seed, potato flour, processed food, protein poultry feed, radish seed, rapeseed, residue, rice, rice (husked), runch seed, sesame, shrimp (dried), soup (dried), soybean, soybean meal, spinach seed, squid, dried, straw, sugar beet seed, sunflower seed, sweeping wheat, wheat bran, wheat flour, wheat flour sweeping, wheat residue, stored rice, rice dust and debris (Farahbakhsh 1961; Sepasgozarian 1971, 1977, 1978 a; Khalilmanesh 1973; Daneshvar 1978 a; Shahhosseini and Kamali 1989; Mehrnejad and Daneshvar 1990; Ostovan 1993; Faraji 1993 b; Mirfakhraii 1994; Modarres Awal 1994, 1997; Mosaddegh 1997; Noei 2007; Noei and Ostovan 2012; Hagstrum et al. 2013).
Ebrahimi, Najmeh, Noei, Javad (2022): Checklist of mites associated with stored products (Arachnida: Acari) of Iran. Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (4): 559-631, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v11i4.75059

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Checklist of mites associated with stored products (Arachnida: Acari) of Iran

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Ebrahimi, Najmeh, Noei, Javad (2022): Checklist of mites associated with stored products (Arachnida: Acari) of Iran. Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (4): 559-631, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v11i4.75059

ABSTRACT

The fauna of Iranian stored products’ mites (Arachnida: Acari) is summarized based on data from published books and papers. A total of 144 species of the Acari belonging to 90 genera, 45 families, 27 superfamilies, three suborders, three orders and two superorders have been recorded in Iran. Species-richest families are Acaridae (17 species, 11.80%), Cheyletidae (16 species, 11.11%) followed by Laelapidae (12 species, 8.33%), Ameroseiidae (seven species, 4.86%), Bdellidae (six species, 4.16%), and each of the families Tydeidae, Cunaxidae and Ascidae (five species, 3.47%), Stigmaeidae, Erythraeidae, Melicharidae, Glycyphagidae and Oppiidae (four species, 2.77%), Trematuridae, Raphignathidae, Blattisociidae, Macrochelidae (three species, 2.08%), Dinychidae, Tarsonemidae, Caligonellidae, Pyemotidae, Acarophenacidae, Phytoseiidae, Histiostomatidae, Carpoglyphidae, Ereynetidae, Suidasiidae and Oribatulidae (each two species, 1.38%) and seventeen families have one species as follows: Achipteriidae, Euphthiracaridae, Scheloribatidae, Cosmochthoniidae, Haplochthoniidae, Tectocepheidae, Suctobelbidae, Pyroglyphidae, Chortoglyphidae, Smarididae, Eupodidae, Parholaspidae, Digamasellidae, Ologamasidae, Rhodacaridae, Tetranychidae, and Oplitidae.

KEY WORDS: Acariformes; fauna; Iran; Parasitiformes; species-richest; warehouse pest.

Ebrahimi N, Noei J, felipe (2022). Checklist of mites associated with stored products (Arachnida: Acari) of Iran. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/rvsqnj accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 10/15/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
206289554
Dataset Key
26010d25-25cc-493c-9d4e-950891708e36
Origin
source
Backbone Key
5799830
Taxon ID
03F4101FC31CFFB9FD90FC26FDD42819.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026