Lepidoglyphus destructor (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 : 571-572

Lepidoglyphus destructor (Schrank, 1781)

Distribution in Iran – East Azerbaijan, Mazandaran, and West Azerbaijan provinces:

Region not mentioned ( Khalilmanesh 1973; Sepasgozarian 1978a; Shahhosseini and Kamali 1989; Faraji 1993b; Mirfakhraii 1994; Modarres Awal 1994, 1997; Mosaddegh 1997; Ardeshir et al. 2012), Guilan Province: Rezvanshahr, Kuchesfahan, Jurkuyeh, Rice Research Institute of Iran, Sowme'eh Sara, Jafarabad, Roodsar, Anzali (Noei 2007; Noei and Ostovan 2012), Golestan Province: Region not mentioned ( Ardeshir 2014), Tehran Province: Region not mentioned, Alborz Province: Karaj ( Sayedi et al. 2006), Razavi Khorasan Province: Mashhad ( Khaleghabadian et al. 2012).

General distribution – Cosmopolitan. Canada, China, England, Iran, Iraq, Poland, Turkey ( Hagstrum et al. 2013).

Collection place(s) – Animal feed, aquatic product, baby food, barley, barley residue, bean (green), beet seed, biscuit, bread, buckwheat, buckwheat product, calf stomach (dried), candied fruit, cereal, cheese, Chinese medicine, cocoa bean, condiment, cottonseed, dried fruit, dried vegetable, flax seed, gin trash, grain, grass seed, hide (dried), hay, hemp seed, herb, insect (dried), kale seed, kaoliang, lettuce seed, linseed, maize, malt, millet spillage, mushroom, oat, onion seed, poppy seed, poultry diet, processed food, protein mix, radish seed, rapeseed, residue, rice, rice (husked), rye, seed cotton, sorghum residue, soybean, straw, sugar beet seed, sunflower seed, sweeping, sweet potato chip (dried), tea, vegetable (dried), wheat, wheat flour, wheat flour sweeping, wheat residue, stored rice, rice dust and debris (Noei 2007; Noei and Ostovan 2012; Hagstrum et al. 2013).