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Macrocheles merdarius

  • 1. . Entomology Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran; E-mails: n. ebrahimi @ iripp. ir, n _ ebrahimi 60 @ yahoo. com
  • 2. . Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran; E-mails: noei. javad @ birjand. ac. ir, noei. javad @ gmail. com.

Description

Macrocheles merdarius (Berlese, 1889)

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. 2008a; Hajizadeh et al. 2009a; 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. 2011b) 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. 2008a; Khaleghabadian et al. 2015).

Notes

Published as part of Ebrahimi, Najmeh & Noei, Javad, 2022, Checklist of mites associated with stored products (Arachnida: Acari) of Iran, pp. 559-631 in Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (4) on page 595, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v11i4.75059, http://zenodo.org/record/7447126

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Macrochelidae
Genus
Macrocheles
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Berlese
Species
merdarius
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Macrocheles merdarius (Berlese, 1889) sec. Ebrahimi & Noei, 2022

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