Parasitus fimetorum (Berlese, 1903)

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 : 266

Parasitus fimetorum (Berlese, 1903)

Recorded in the provinces of 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 ash, buttonwood, chicken manure, decaying, honey bee hives, leaf compost, livestock manure and bird nests ( Mosaddegh, 1997; Kamali et al., 2001); from soils in Ahwaz (31°19’22"N, 48°40’50"E, H: 16 m) ( Baharloo et al., 2006), Kerman (30°16’39"N, 57°3’53"E, H: 1763 m) ( Masnavipour et al., 2011), Orumieh (37°32’59"N, 45°4’32"E, H: 1349 m) ( Rezaie et al., 2011), and Deh-Bakri (Bam region) (29°06’N, 58°21’E, H: 1060 m) ( Mehrzad et al., 2012); from Khorasan Razavi (36°18’4"N, 59°35’24"E, H: 989 m) on gladiole corms and saffron ( Baradaran Anaraki et al., 2012); from Bojnourd (20°37’N, 50°57’E, H: 1210 m) in the soil of farms, gardens and manure ( Mahpikaran et al., 2012).

New Records : Esfahan (32°39’37"N, 51°41’22"E, H: 1608 m), Shahrekord (32°19’39"N, 50°51’35"E, H: 2206 m), Baghmalek (31°31’22"N, 49°53’8"E, H: 707m) (Khuzestan province), Ghaletol (31°37’55"N, 49°53’20"E, H: 885 m), and Izeh (31°49’52"N, 49°52’9"E, H: 845 m) in soil samples, coll., A. Nemati, 2011 and 2012 .