Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank, 1781)

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 : 568-569

Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank, 1781)

Distribution in Iran – Generally distributed ( Khalilmanesh 1973; Sepasgozarian 1978a; Shahhosseini and Kamali 1989; Sadeghi Namaghi 1990; Mehrnejad and Daneshvar 1990; Rahimi 1991; Lachinani and Ahmadi 1993; Faraji and Kamali 1993; Faraji 1993a; Sadeghi Namaghi and Kamali 1993; Ostovan 1993; Fathipour 1994; Mirfakhraii 1994; Modarres Awal 1994, 1997; Sadeghi Namaghi 1995; Mosaddegh et al. 1995; Taghavi 1996; Mosaddegh 1997; Sepasgozarian 1977; Darvishzadeh 1997; Ostovan and Kamali 1997; Mosaddegh 1998; Taghavi et al. 1998), Alborz Province: Karaj ( Sayedi et al. 2006), Golestan Province: Region not mentioned ( Ardeshir 2014), Kordestan Province: Saqez ( Maroufpoor and Ostovan 2017), East Azerbaijan Province: Region not mentioned ( Ardeshir et al. 2012), Razavi Khorasan Province: Mashhad ( Khaleghabadian et al. 2012; Kordestani Mahani et al. 2014), Guilan Province: Masal, Rezvanshahr, (Rice Research Institute of Iran, Anzali, Astaneh, Sowme'eh Sara, Jurkuyeh) (Noei 2007; Noei and Ostovan 2012).

General distribution – Cosmopolitan. Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Swaziland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Wales ( Hagstrum et al. 2013).

Collection place(s) – Apple (rotten), apricot kernel, aquatic product, baby food, bacon, bamboo shoot, banana (dried), barley, barley (germinating), bean, bean curd, bee pollen, beet seed, biscuit, bread, broad bean, buckwheat, buckwheat product, cabbage (dried), cake, candied fruit, caraway, carob, carpet, carrot seed, cereal, cereal spillage (damp), cheese, chicken feed, chicory root, Chinese medicine, cocoa bean, common bean, condiment, copra, cotton fiber, cottonseed, cottonseed sweeping, cowpea, cumin, date, dried fruit, dried vegetable, egg (dried), feed pellet, fereek, fig (dried), fish (dried), flax seed, fungus (dried), garlic, garlic bulb, ginger, gin trash, gladiolus corm, gluten, grain, grass seed, ham, herb, herring meal, insect (dried), jelly, kaoliang, lettuce seed, lily (rotting), logan (dried), maize, maize flour, maize (old), malt, malt spillage, marmalade, meat product, milk (powdered), millet, mushroom (dried), narcissus, nut, oat, onion, onion seed, palm kernel, parsley (dried), parsnip seed, Paspalum seed, peanut, pepper, pine seed, pineapple fruit, plum (dried), poppy seed, potato (old), potato (rotten), potato (sprouting), processed food, radish seed, raisin, rape seed, rape seed sweeping, residue, rice, rice (husked), rice (milled), runch seed, rye, sausage, seaweed (dried), seed cotton, shark fin (dried), shrimp (dried), sorghum, soybean, soybean groat, soybean meal, squid (dried), starch, sugar beet seed, sugar (crude), sugar (red), sugar (white), straw mat, sultana, sunflower seed, sweeping, sweet potato tuber, tansy leaf, tea, tobacco, tobacco leaf (cured), tobacco seed, tomato relish, tulip, vegetable (pickled), vinegar, wheat, wheat bran, wheat flour, wheat flour sweeping, wheat spillage, yeast (dried), wool, stored rice, rice dust and debris (Noei 2007; Noei and Ostovan 2012; Hagstrum et al. 2013).