Macrocheles merdarius (Berlese, 1889)

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 : 595

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).