Paromalini Reiter, 1909

Ghahari, Hassan, Mazur, Slawomir & Ostovan, Hadi, 2017, A Checklist of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea) of Iran, The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (3), pp. 595-611 : 597-598

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).