A Checklist of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea) of Iran Author Ghahari, Hassan Author Mazur, Slawomir Author Ostovan, Hadi text The Coleopterists Bulletin 2017 2017-09-18 71 3 595 611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-71.3.595 journal article 10.1649/0010-065X-71.3.595 1938-4394 5377439 Tribe Paromalini Reiter, 1909 Genus Carcinops Marseul, 1855 Carcinops pumilio (Erichson, 1834) = Carcinops quatuordecimstriata (Stephens, 1835) . Distribution in Iran : West Azarbaijan ( Tavassoli et al. 2011 ). General distribution: Albania , Algeria , Argentina , Austria , Azerbaijan, Belgium , Belarus , Canary Islands, Chile , China (Northern Territory), Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Egypt , Finland , France , Georgia, Germany , Greece , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Latvia , Lithuania , Madeira Archipelago, Malta , Morocco , The Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russia (Central European Territory, Far East, North European Territory, South European Territory), Serbia and Montenegro , Slovakia , South Korea , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Taiwan , Tunisia , United Kingdom , Ukraine , USA , Uzbekistan . Comments: Carcinops pumilio occurs naturally in poultry house manure and is an important predator of eggs and larvae of the house fly, Musca domestica Linnaeus ( Diptera : Muscidae ) (Geden and Axtell 1988; Wilhoit et al. 1991 ). Carcinops pumilio has also been shown to be a reservoir of Salmonella enterica (ex Kauffmann & Edwards) Le Minor & Popoff (Proteobacteria: Enterobacteriaceae ) ( Gray et al. 1999 ; Tavassoli et al. 2011 ).