Cheyletus carnifex Zachvatkin, 1935

Salarzehi, Safoura, Hajizadeh, Jalil, Hakimitabar, Masoud & Ueckermann, Edward A., 2018, A contribution to the knowledge of cheyletid mites of Iran with redescription of Eucheyletia flabellifera (Michael, 1878) (Prostigmata: Cheyletidae), Acarologia 58 (2), pp. 457-470 : 465-466

Cheyletus carnifex Zachvatkin, 1935

Material examined — Forty five females, stored rice and decayed rice bran; 1 female, poultry waste; 3 females, pine shells; 1 female, box leaf; 1 female, bran and dust of rice warehouse;

1 female, rotten wood, Rasht (37°17′0″N, 49°35′0″E, alt. - 7 m), 22 July 2016, 3 September

2016, 3 July 2016, 18 May 2016, 22 October 2016, 9 June 2016; 22 females, stored rice and decayed rice bran; 12 females, rotten wood, 6 females, decayed plant material, Sangar (37°10′42″N, 49°41′38″E, alt. 31 m), 9 June 2016; 1 female, decayed plant material, Loolman (37°04′23″N, 49°54′13″E, alt. 0 m), 15 June 2016; 1 female, rotten wood; 20 females, stored rice and decayed rice bran, 9 June 2016, Kuchesfahan (37° 28′ 11″N, 49°77′32″E, alt. 0 m),

15 June 2016, 2 August 2015, 29 February 2017; 1 female, citrus leaf; 1 female, pigeon waste, Lashtnesha (37°36′44″N, 49°85′78″E, alt. 24 m), 22 July 2016, 17 November 2016; 1 female,

soil, Astane-ye-Ashrafiyeh (37°15′54″N, 49°56′40″E, alt. - 2 m), 6 November 2016 ; 1 female stored rice and decayed rice bran, Anzali (37°28′N, 49°280′E, alt. - 36 m), 27 October 2016 ; 1 female, Turkey waste, Shaft (37°9′24″N, 49°24′26″E, alt. 47 m), 4 July 2016 ; 1 female, stored rice and decayed rice bran, Sowme’e-Sara (37°18′0″N, 49°18′0″E, alt. 20 m), 22 November

2016; 1 female, stored rice and decayed rice bran, Chaboksar (36°58′0″N, 50°35′0″E, alt. 216 m), 29 September 2015, collected by S. Salarzehi.

World Distribution — Holarctic: Tajikistan, Mongolia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia ( Zachvatkin, 1935; Fain and Bochkov, 2001b); Czech Republic, USA ( Hughes, 1976); Iran,

( Faraji and Kamali, 1993).