Proctolaelaps pygmaeus

Distribution in Iran – Fars Province: Kazerun (Ostovan and Kamali 1994; Kamali et al. 2001); Marvdasht (Soleimani et al. 2011), Shiraz (Montazeri et al. 2011), Larestan (Khadempour et al. 2012), Shiraz (Granpayeh et al. 2012; Granpayeh and Ostovan 2014), Marvdasht, Islamic Azad University, Fars Science and Research Branch (Amirazodi and Ostovan 2012), Darab (Khorsand et al. 2012), Doroodzan (Asadpoor et al. 2012), Khuzestan Province: Region not mentioned (Habibpour et al. 2002), Dezful (Malekzadeh et al. 2000), Region not mentioned (Nemati and Babaeian 2010), Hamedan Province: Region not mentioned (Kamali et al. 2001), Lorestan Provinces: Khorramabad (Hasanvand et al. 2014 b; Hasanvand et al. 2015), Kordestan Provinces: Region not mentioned (Kamali et al. 2001), West Azerbaijan Province: Urmia (Kamali et al. 2001; Mosavi et al. 2004; Rezaie et al. 2011), Miandoab Plain (Haddad Irani-Nejad et al. 2003), Isfahan Province: Najaf Abad (Jalaeian et al. 2006) Shahreza (Kavianpour et al. 2011), Semnan Province: Tooyehdarvar Village, Dibaj, near Imamzadeh, Forat Village, Damghan (Shamsi et al. 2008), Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province: Region not mentioned (Nemati and Babaeian 2010; Khalili-Moghadam and Nemati 2014), Bushehr Province: Region not mentioned (Nemati and Babaeian 2010), Guilan Province: Region not mentioned (Hajizadeh et al. 2009 b, 2010 a; Karami et al. 2017 a, b; Tajmiri and Hajizadeh 2013), Kerman Province: Sirjan, Zeidabad, Gostueyeh, Mani, Sarcheshmeh, Shahrebabak (Masnavipour et al. 2011, 2014) Bam (Mehrzad et al. 2011, 2012) Rafsanjan (Mohammadi et al. 2012), Yazd Province: Region not mentioned (Kafi et al. 2014), Zanjan Province: Region not mentioned (Zare et al. 2012 a; Bigdeli et al. 2014; Arjomandi et al. 2013; Arjomandi and Kazemi 2014), East Azerbaijan Province: Region not mentioned (Mohammad-Dustar-Sharaf et al. 2016), Razavi Khorasan Province: Mashhad (Khaleghabadian et al. 2013 a, Khaleghabadian et al. 2015, Abbaspour et al. 2017), Qom Province: Region not mentioned (Agha Alikhani et al. 2017), Khorasan Shomlai Province: Region not mentioned (Rezaei et al. 2016). General distribution – Cosmopolitan. Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, Taiwan, United States, and Wales (Hagstrum et al. 2013). Collection place (s) – Houses; darnel, date palm, stored onion and potato contaminated to Schwiebia spp. and Rhizoglyphus spp., barley (moldy), bulb (rotting), condiment, cyclamen leaf (dried), grain, rice, sweeping, timber (moldy), wheat, wheat (moldy) (Sepasgozarian 1978 a; Ostovan 1993; Mirfakhraii 1994; Modarres Awal 1994, 1997; Khanjani 1996; Mosaddegh 1997; Ostovan and Mosaddegh 1999; Hagstrum et al. 2013; Khaleghabadian et al. 2015).