Macrocheles subbadius ( Berlese, 1904 )

Farahi, Sara, Shishehbor, Parviz & Nemati, Alireza, 2018, Some mesostigmatic mites (Acari: Parasitiformes) of Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 7 (4), pp. 323-344 : 333

Macrocheles subbadius ( Berlese, 1904)

Holostaspis subbadius – Berlese (1904): 264.

Macrocheles subbadius – Hyatt and Emberson (1988): 111.

Distribution and habitats in Iran – Provinces of Fars (putrid onion, soil and decayed plants associated with conifers, manure, soil and leaf-litter), Alborz (compost), Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari (dung), Golestan ( Geotrupes sp., cow and sheep manure), Kerman (soil) ( Kazemi and Rajaei 2013), Gulian (soil of hazelnut orchard), Markazi (soil) and Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari (soil) ( Nemati et al. 2018). This is new to the Khuzestan Province fauna.

Material examined – Two females, Bavi, Mollasani, 31° 35' 31" N, 48° 53' 10" E, 27 m a.s.l., 8 April 2015 (sheep manure), one female, 14 May 2015 (cow manure); one female, Ahvaz, dairy farm at Shahid Chamran University campus, 32° 17' 59" N, 48° 39' 39" E, 15 m a.s.l., 6 April 2016 (cow manure); one female, Shush, Seyyed Abbas, 31° 49' 49" N, 48° 23' 21" E, 40 m a.s.l., 6 May 2016 (buffalo manure).

Note – Characters of the Iranian specimens agreed with data presented in Hyatt and Emberson (1988).