Parasitus numerus (Karg, 1965)

Nemati, A., Gwiazdowicz, D. J., Riahi, E. & Mohseni, M., 2013, Catalogue Of Mesostigmatid Mites Of Iran. Part 4: Parasitidae, Veigaiidae And Zerconidae, Acarologia 53 (3), pp. 263-271 : 267

Parasitus numerus (Karg, 1965)

Recorded in soils of Esfahan (32°39’37"N, 51°41’22"E, H: 1608 m) ( Khalili-Moghadam et al., 2012) .

Two species were reported as Parasitus cf. fimetorum Berlese and P. cf. hyalinus (Willmann) from soil in Tehran (35°42’2"N, 51°21’20"E, H: 1200 m) ( Kamali et al., 2004). Bahrami et al. (2011) reported two species as P. cf. copridis and P. cf. kempersi from Coleoptera in Golestan province.

Some unnamed species of this genus were also recorded from Hamedan (34°45’24"N, 48°39’32"E, H: 1887 m), Mazandaran (36°33’46"N, 53°3’15"E, H: 39 m), Semnan (35°15’17"N, 53°51’03"E, H: 1117 m) and Tehran (35°42’2"N, 51°21’20"E, H: 1200 m) from a series of different substrate types (elm, honey bee hive, leaf compost, liquorice-livestock manure, bird nests and pomegranate) ( Mosaddegh, 1997; Kamali et al., 2001), Dezful (32°22’13"N, 48°25’15"E, H: 126 m), citrus ( Malekzadeh et al., 2000); Zanjan (36°39’51"N, 48°29’8"E), soil ( Rahmani and Zare, 2011) and from Larestan (35°44’24"N, 54°7’12"E, H: 1490 m), cotton and wheat fields ( Khadempour et al., 2012).