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Macrocheles muscaedomesticae

Macrocheles muscaedomesticae

(Scopoli, 1772)

GBIF:206289617

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Distribution in Iran – Tehran Province: Tehran (Mosaddegh 1997; Kamali et al. 2001; Ostovan and Farzane 2004) Tehran City, Police Park (Maleki et al. 2016), East Azerbaijan Province: Region not mentioned (Kamali et al. 2001), Khuzestan Province: Ahvaz (Baharloo et al. 2006), Region not mentioned (Nemati and Babaeian 2010), Guilan Province: Sangar, Gil Pardehsar (Hajizadeh et al. 2009 a; Arjimandi Nezhad and Babaeian 2014); Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province: Saman (Shariati et al. 2017) (Nemati and Babaeian 2010) Shahrekord (Babaeian et al. 2011), Bushehr Province: Region not mentioned (Nemati and Babaeian 2010), Mazandaran Province: Nowshahr (Ahangaran et al. 2010), Kerman Province: Kerman (Arjomandi et al. 2011, 2013; Hosseinpour and Latifi 2014) Baft (Rajaei et al. 2011 b), Golestan Province: Roshan Abad, Ali Abad Katoul, Kaboud Val (Bahrami et al. 2011) Gonbad Kavus, Galikesh (Zakeri et al. 2011), Fars Province: Ramjerd (Sobhani et al. 2011) Shiraz (Granpayeh et al. 2012) Doroodzan (Asadpoor et al. 2012), North Khorasan Province: Bojnurd (Mahpikaran et al. 2012), Isfahan Province: Kashan (Abutaleb Kermani et al. 2017). General distribution – Cosmopolitan. Australia, Canada, England, Philippines, Scotland, United States, and Wales (Hagstrum et al. 2013). Collection place (s) – Storage products, fish (dried), grain, maize trash, onion bulb, peanut (moldy), wheat residue (rotting) (Khaleghabadian et al. 2015; 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
206289617
Dataset Key
26010d25-25cc-493c-9d4e-950891708e36
Origin
source
Backbone Key
4549259
Taxon ID
03F4101FC33CFF9AFE2CFF19FB0B2A97.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026