Macrocheles glaber ( Müller, 1860 )

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 : 329-330

Macrocheles glaber ( Müller, 1860)

Holostaspis glabra – Müller (1860): 178.

Macrocheles glaber – Hyatt and Emberson (1988): 107.

Distribution and habitats in Iran – Provinces of Hamedan (clover ( Trifolium sp.) farms), Azerbaijan-e Sharghi (soil of orchards), Azerbaijan-e Gharbi (house dust), Tehran (soil, leaf-litter, decomposing organic matter, manure, unidentified scarab beetles), Markazi (soil), Isfahan (soil of fruit orchards), Khuzestan (soil), Alborz (compost), Guilan (soil), Mazandaran (soil), Kerman (soil, cow and poultry manure), Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari (dung), Fars (manure, soil and leaf-litter), Golestan (soil, E. gibbosus, Oxythrea cinctella (Schaum) and an unidentified cerambycid, camel and cow manure), Khorasan-e Shomali (manures, soil) an unknown region (honey bee hives) ( Kazemi and Rajaei 2013), Azerbaijan-e Sharghi (soil and plant debris), Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari (soil) and Khorasan-e Razavi (soil) ( Nemati et al. 2018).

Material examined – Two females, one male, Ahvaz, Gavmish Abad, 31° 17' 34.77" N, 48° 40' 05.05" E, 15 m a.s.l., 24 April 2015 (buffalo manure); two females, Ahvaz, dairy farm at Shahid Chamran University campus, 32° 17' 59" N, 48° 39' 39" E, 15 m a.s.l., 26 May 2015 (cow manure), two females, 29 May 2016 (cow manure); three females, Bavi, Mollasani, 31° 35' 31" N, 48° 53' 10" E, 27 m a.s.l., 19 September 2015 (buffalo manure), three females, one male, 25 August 2016 (sheep manure), four females, 5 March 2017 (poultry manure); four females, Ahvaz, Nabi-ye Akram village , 31° 26' 15" N, 48° 45' 11" E, 18 m a.s.l., 30 November 2015 (cow manure); four females, Susangerd, Abu Hamizeh, 31° 31' 48" N, 48° 13' 11" E, 15 m a.s.l., 20 October 2016 (buffalo manure); three females, Shush, Khoyes, 32° 01' 53" N, 48° 16' 45" E, 60 m a.s.l., 7 April 2017 (cow manure); seven females, Bavi, Talbumeh, 31° 31' 37" N, 48° 55' 27" E, 20 m a.s.l., 26 April 2017 (cow manure); two females, two males, Ahvaz, Alhaei, 31° 39' 20" N, 48° 35' 26" E, 31 m a.s.l., 24 May 2017 (cow manure) .

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