Acarus siro Linnaeus, 1758

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 : 564

Acarus siro Linnaeus, 1758

Distribution in Iran – Generally distributed ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Sepasgozarian 1971, 1977, 1978a; Khalilmanesh 1973; Daneshvar 1978a; Shahhosseini and Kamali 1989; Mehrnejad and Daneshvar 1990; Faraji 1993a, b; Ostovan 1993; Mirfakhraii 1994; Mosaddegh 1997; Modarres Awal 1994, 1997), Fars Province: Region not mentioned (Ostovan 1993; Ardeshir and Khani 2015), Eest Azerbaijan and Razavi Khorasan Provinces: Region not mentioned ( Ardeshir and Khani 2015), Mashhad ( Khaleghabadian et al. 2012), Kordestan Province: Region not mentioned ( Maroufpoor and Ostovan 2017), Tehran Province: Varamin ( Ardeshir et al. 2006; Ardeshir and Khani 2015), Alborz Province: Karaj ( Sayedi et al. 2006), Guilan Province: Masal, Sowme'eh Sara, Fuman (Noei 2007; Noei and Ostovan 2012), Mazandaran Province: Region not mentioned ( Ardeshir 2011).

General distribution – Cosmopolitan. Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, Poland, Primorskiy Kray, Scotland, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Wales ( Hagstrum et al. 2013).

Collection place(s) – Aquatic products, baby food, barley, barley sweeping, bean curd, beet seed, biscuit, bread, buckwheat, buckwheat product, cake, castor bean, cereal, cereal debris, cereal product, chaff, cheese, chicken feed, chicory, Chinese medicine, cinnamon, clover seed, coltsfood leaf and root, condiment, cottonseed, dill seed, dried fruit, dried vegetable, ergot, fenugreek, flax seed, fodder waste, grain, grain residue, grass seed, halva, hay, hemp seed, herb, kale seed, kohlrabi seed, lentil, lettuce seed, linseed, maize, lupine seed, maize groat, meat (dried), milk (dried), mint leaf, mushroom, nettle leaf, oat, oat flake, offal, oilseed cake, onion seed, pea (dried), pea flour, peanut, poppy seed, potato flour, processed food, protein poultry feed, radish seed, rapeseed, residue, rice, rice (husked), runch seed, sesame, shrimp (dried), soup (dried), soybean, soybean meal, spinach seed, squid, dried, straw, sugar beet seed, sunflower seed, sweeping wheat, wheat bran, wheat flour, wheat flour sweeping, wheat residue, stored rice, rice dust and debris ( Farahbakhsh 1961; Sepasgozarian 1971, 1977, 1978a; Khalilmanesh 1973; Daneshvar 1978a; Shahhosseini and Kamali 1989; Mehrnejad and Daneshvar 1990; Ostovan 1993; Faraji 1993b; Mirfakhraii 1994; Modarres Awal 1994, 1997; Mosaddegh 1997; Noei 2007; Noei and Ostovan 2012; Hagstrum et al. 2013).