Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Scopoli, 1772)

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 : 596

Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Scopoli, 1772)

Distribution in Iran – Tehran Province: Tehran ( Mosaddegh 1997; Kamali et al. 2001; Ostovan and Farzane 2004) Tehran City, Police Park ( Maleki et al. 2016), East Azerbaijan Province: Region not mentioned ( Kamali et al. 2001), Khuzestan Province: Ahvaz ( Baharloo et al. 2006), Region not mentioned ( Nemati and Babaeian 2010), Guilan Province: Sangar, Gil Pardehsar ( Hajizadeh et al. 2009a; Arjimandi Nezhad and Babaeian 2014); Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province: Saman ( Shariati et al. 2017) ( Nemati and Babaeian 2010) Shahrekord (Babaeian et al. 2011), Bushehr Province: Region not mentioned ( Nemati and Babaeian 2010), Mazandaran Province: Nowshahr ( Ahangaran et al. 2010), Kerman Province: Kerman ( Arjomandi et al. 2011, 2013; Hosseinpour and Latifi 2014) Baft ( Rajaei et al. 2011b), Golestan Province: Roshan Abad, Ali Abad Katoul, Kaboud Val ( Bahrami et al. 2011) Gonbad Kavus, Galikesh ( Zakeri et al. 2011), Fars Province: Ramjerd ( Sobhani et al. 2011) Shiraz ( Granpayeh et al. 2012) Doroodzan ( Asadpoor et al. 2012), North Khorasan Province: Bojnurd ( Mahpikaran et al. 2012), Isfahan Province: Kashan ( Abutaleb Kermani et al. 2017).

General distribution – Cosmopolitan. Australia, Canada, England, Philippines, Scotland, United States, and Wales ( Hagstrum et al. 2013).

Collection place(s) – Storage products, fish (dried), grain, maize trash, onion bulb, peanut (moldy), wheat residue (rotting) ( Khaleghabadian et al. 2015; Hagstrum et al. 2013).