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Macrocheles merdarius

Macrocheles merdarius

(Berlese, 1889)

GBIF:206289616

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ABOUT

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Distribution in Iran – East Azerbaijan Province: Tabriz (Kamali et al. 2001), Fars Province: Kazerun (Kamali et al. 2001) Jahrom (Khademi et al. 2006) Marvdasht (Soleimani et al. 2011) Ramjerd (Sobhani et al. 2011) Marvdasht, Islamic Azad University, Fars Science and Research Branch (Amirazodi and Ostovan 2012) Doroodzan (Asadpoor et al. 2012) Sepidan, Homayjan (Maneshi et al. 2012), Tehran Province: Tehran (Ostovan and Farzane 2004), Markazi Province: Arak (Seifori et al. 2006) (Region not mentioned) (Jadidi and Joharchi 2014), Isfahan Province: Dorcheh, Zarrinshahr (Jalaeian et al. 2006) Isfahan (Khalili-Moghadam et al. 2012) Kashan (Abutaleb Kermani et al. 2017), Sistan and Baluchestan Province: Sistan (Arjmandi Nejad et al. 2006, 2008; Sayadi et al. 2012), Tehran Province: Shahryar (Kheradmand et al. 2007), Guilan Province: Talish, Jokandan, Fouman, Lishavandan (Noei 2007; Noei et al. 2008 a; Hajizadeh et al. 2009 a; Arjimandi-Nezhad and Babaeian 2014), Mazandaran Province: Nowshahr (Ahangaran et al. 2010), Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province: Shahrekord (Babaeian et al. 2011; Arjmandi Nejad et al. 2006, 2008) Saman (Shariati et al. 2017), Golestan Province: Gorgan (Kazemi et al. 2011) Dangelan Village, Alang Darreh Forest, Roshan Abad (Bahrami et al. 2011), Galikesh, Kalale, Gonbad (Zakeri et al. 2011), Zanjan Province: Region not mentioned (Rahmani and Zare 2011), Kerman Province: Sirjan, Pariz, Shahrebabak, Rafsanjan (Masnavipour et al. 2011; Masnavipour et al. 2014), Kerman (Arjomandi et al. 2011; Hosseinpour and Latifi 2014), Baft (Rajaei et al. 2011 b) Bam (Mehrzad et al. 2012) Jiroft (Balooch Shahryari et al. 2012); West Azerbaijan Province: Khoy (Taher et al. 2012) Salmas (Alizadeh and Shirdel 2012), North Khorasan Province: Bojnurd (Mahpikaran et al. 2012), Qom Province: Region not mentioned (Agha Alikhani et al. 2017), North Khorasan Province: Region not mentioned (Rezaei et al. 2016), Lorestan Provinces: Khorramabad (Hasanvand et al. 2015) (Jadidi and Joharchi 2014). General distribution – Widely distributed in the world (Bregetova and Koroleva 1960; Mašán, 2003, Kılıç et al. 2012). Collection place (s) – Stored onion, storage products, stored rice, rice dust and debris (Ostovan 1993; Fathipour 1994; Ostovan 1999; Noei 2007; Noei et al. 2008 a; Khaleghabadian et al. 2015).
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
206289616
Dataset Key
26010d25-25cc-493c-9d4e-950891708e36
Origin
source
Backbone Key
4549303
Taxon ID
03F4101FC33DFF9BFDE7FC7BFAA52EBA.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026