New reports of caraboacarid mites (Acari: Trochometridioidea) from Iran, with some notes on their host specificity Author Rahiminejad, Vahid . Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Plant Production, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural resources, Gorgan, Iran; E-mails: vahidrahiminejad @ gau. ac. ir, ghandhariyasaman @ gmail. com, fakhtehjafari 1375 @ gmail. com Author Yahyapour, Eliye . Entomology Department, Agricultural Faculty, Islamic Azad University, Arak branch, Arak, Iran; E-mail: eyahyapur @ yahoo. com eyahyapur@yahoo.com Author Ghandhari, Yasaman . Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Plant Production, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural resources, Gorgan, Iran; E-mails: vahidrahiminejad @ gau. ac. ir, ghandhariyasaman @ gmail. com, fakhtehjafari 1375 @ gmail. com Author Jafari, Fakhteh . Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Plant Production, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural resources, Gorgan, Iran; E-mails: vahidrahiminejad @ gau. ac. ir, ghandhariyasaman @ gmail. com, fakhtehjafari 1375 @ gmail. com text Persian Journal of Acarology 2024 2024-07-15 13 427 433 journal article 10.22073/pja.v13i3.85596 2251-8169 13159707 Caraboacarus krczali Eidelberg, 1994 Material examined – Two specimens were extracted from soil sample collected from Alangdareh forest , Gorgan , Golestan Province , 36.46° N , 54.26° E , and altitude 236 m a.s.l. , June 19, 2023 , by V . Rahiminejad . World distribution and Host specificity – The species first described from Russia and Ukraine and after that was reported from Senegal and Iran phoretic on Calosoma spp. and Calosoma auropunctatum dsungaricum Gebler , respectively ( Mortazavi et al . 2011 ; Mortazavi and Hajiqanbar 2012 ). Remarks – This species has been observed living freely in soil samples for the first time.