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Mostafa Maroufpoor

Mostafa Maroufpoor

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 36614405000
Faculty: Faculty of Agriculture
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Phone: 7224846

Research

Title
Fauna of mites associated with stored wheat in Kurdistan province, Iran
Type
Presentation
Keywords
Erythraeinae, Erythraeus (Zaracarus), Iran, Kurdistan, larva
Year
2017
Researchers Mostafa Maroufpoor ، Javad Noei ، Fardin Faizi ، Hadi Ostovan

Abstract

The most important contamination of flour and wheat silos, are pests that damage them both quantitatively and qualitatively. 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 six genera, were identified. Erythraeus (Zaracarus) coleopterus Mortazavi, Hajiqanbar & Saboori, 2012 (Acari: Erythraeidae) was described based on a single specimen from Kerman province, southeastern Iran, associated with one scarabaeid beetle (Cyphonoxia sp.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Also, it is the second larval species of this subgenus which is recorded from Kurdistan province in Iran. 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: Erythraeus (Erythraeus) shojaii Saboori & Babolmorad, 2000; E. (E.) southcotti Goldarazena and Zhang, 1998.