New records of mites of the Heterostigmata (Acari: Prostigmata) associated with insects from Golestan Province, northern Iran Author Rahiminejad, Vahid . Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115 - 336, Tehran, Iran; E-mail: hajiqanbar @ modares. ac. ir &. Current address: Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Plant Production, Gorgan University of Agricultural Science and Natural Resource, Golestan, Iran. hajiqanbar@modares.ac.ir Author Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza . Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115 - 336, Tehran, Iran; E-mail: hajiqanbar @ modares. ac. ir hajiqanbar@modares.ac.ir text Persian Journal of Acarology 2020 2020-07-15 9 3 233 242 journal article 10.22073/pja.v9i3.61223 2251-8169 4644986 Caraboacarus stammeri Krczal, 1959 World distribution – The species has been recorded from Holarctic, and has the most distribution and least host specificity among all caraboacarid mites ( Katlav et al . 2015 ). Material examined – Three large colonies of females obtained under the elytra of ground beetles of Calosoma Weber, 1801 and Harpalus Latreille, 1802 . The host beetles were collected from all over the Golestan Province during Summer 2014. Remarks – This is the first report of the family Caraboacaridae in Golestan Province .