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

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, Suida-siidae and Oribatulidae (each two species, 1.38%) and seventeen families have one species as follows: Achipteriidae, Euphthiracaridae, Scheloribatidae, Cosmochthoniidae, Haplochthoniidae, Tectocepheidae, Suctobelbidae, Pyroglyph-idae, Chortoglyphidae, Smarididae, Eupodidae, Parholaspidae, Digamasellidae, Ologamasidae, Rhodacaridae, Tetra-nychidae, and Oplitidae.