Fauna of mites associated with stored wheat in Kurdistan Province and one new record for Iranian mite fauna

The most important contamination of flour and wheat silos, are pests that damage them both quantitatively and qualitatively. Wheat stored in ticks infected with increasing heat and humidity is reduced wheat quality. In this study, a faunistic survey of flour and wheat mites during 2015 from different cities of Kurdistan province was conducted. During this study, 11 species of Trombidiformes, Sarcoptiformes and Mesostigmata belonging to nine families and 6 genera, were identified. All of them are new records for Kurdistan Province mite fauna. Among them, Erythraeussouthcotti(Goldarazena and Zhang, 1998) considered to be new records for mite fauna of Iran. The most abundant predator and pest mites were Cheyletus malaccensis (Oudemans) (Cheyletidae) and Rhizoglyphus echinopus (Fumouze & Robin) (Acaridae), respectively. The list of identified species is as follows:
Acaridae
Acarus siro Linnaeus, 1758
Rhizoglyphus echinopus (Fumouze & Robin, 1868)
Tyrophagus putrescentiae Schrank, 1781
Cheyletidae
Acaropsis sollers (Kuzin, 1940)
Cheyletus malaccensis Oudemans, 1903
Cheyletus eruditus (Schrank, 1781)
Blattisociidae
Blattisocius keegani Fox, 1947
Dermanyssidae
Liponyssoides sanguineus (Hirst, 1914)
Laelapidae
Pneumolaelaps lubrica (Voigts & Oudemans, 1904)
Erythraeidae
ErythraeusshojaiiSaboori and Babolmorad, 2000
ErythraeussouthcottiGoldarazena and Zhang, 1998