Proctolaelaps pygmaeus (Müller, 1859)

Ebrahimi, Najmeh & Noei, Javad, 2022, Checklist of mites associated with stored products (Arachnida: Acari) of Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (4), pp. 559-631 : 590

Proctolaelaps pygmaeus (Müller, 1859)

Distribution in Iran – Fars Province: Kazerun ( Ostovan and Kamali 1994; Kamali et al. 2001); Marvdasht ( Soleimani et al. 2011), Shiraz ( Montazeri et al. 2011), Larestan ( Khadempour et al. 2012), Shiraz ( Granpayeh et al. 2012; Granpayeh and Ostovan 2014), Marvdasht, Islamic Azad University, Fars Science and Research Branch ( Amirazodi and Ostovan 2012), Darab ( Khorsand et al. 2012), Doroodzan ( Asadpoor et al. 2012), Khuzestan Province: Region not mentioned ( Habibpour et al. 2002), Dezful ( Malekzadeh et al. 2000), Region not mentioned ( Nemati and Babaeian 2010), Hamedan Province: Region not mentioned ( Kamali et al. 2001), Lorestan Provinces: Khorramabad ( Hasanvand et al. 2014b; Hasanvand et al. 2015), Kordestan Provinces: Region not mentioned ( Kamali et al. 2001), West Azerbaijan Province: Urmia ( Kamali et al. 2001; Mosavi et al. 2004; Rezaie et al. 2011), Miandoab Plain ( Haddad Irani-Nejad et al. 2003), Isfahan Province: Najaf Abad ( Jalaeian et al. 2006) Shahreza ( Kavianpour et al. 2011), Semnan Province: Tooyehdarvar Village, Dibaj, near Imamzadeh, Forat Village, Damghan ( Shamsi et al. 2008), Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province: Region not mentioned ( Nemati and Babaeian 2010; Khalili-Moghadam and Nemati 2014), Bushehr Province: Region not mentioned ( Nemati and Babaeian 2010), Guilan Province: Region not mentioned ( Hajizadeh et al. 2009b, 2010a; Karami et al. 2017a, b; Tajmiri and Hajizadeh 2013), Kerman Province: Sirjan, Zeidabad, Gostueyeh, Mani, Sarcheshmeh, Shahrebabak ( Masnavipour et al. 2011, 2014) Bam ( Mehrzad et al. 2011, 2012) Rafsanjan ( Mohammadi et al. 2012), Yazd Province: Region not mentioned ( Kafi et al. 2014), Zanjan Province: Region not mentioned ( Zare et al. 2012a; Bigdeli et al. 2014; Arjomandi et al. 2013; Arjomandi and Kazemi 2014), East Azerbaijan Province: Region not mentioned ( Mohammad-Dustar-Sharaf et al. 2016), Razavi Khorasan Province: Mashhad ( Khaleghabadian et al. 2013 a, Khaleghabadian et al. 2015, Abbaspour et al. 2017), Qom Province: Region not mentioned ( Agha Alikhani et al. 2017), Khorasan Shomlai Province: Region not mentioned ( Rezaei et al. 2016).

General distribution – Cosmopolitan. Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, Taiwan, United States, and Wales ( Hagstrum et al. 2013).

Collection place(s) – Houses; darnel, date palm, stored onion and potato contaminated to Schwiebia spp. and Rhizoglyphus spp. , barley (moldy), bulb (rotting), condiment, cyclamen leaf (dried), grain, rice, sweeping, timber (moldy), wheat, wheat (moldy) ( Sepasgozarian 1978a; Ostovan 1993; Mirfakhraii 1994; Modarres Awal 1994, 1997; Khanjani 1996; Mosaddegh 1997; Ostovan and Mosaddegh 1999; Hagstrum et al. 2013; Khaleghabadian et al. 2015).