Checklist of mites associated with stored products (Arachnida: Acari) of Iran Author Ebrahimi, Najmeh . Entomology Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran; E-mails: n. ebrahimi @ iripp. ir, n _ ebrahimi 60 @ yahoo. com Author Noei, Javad . Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran; E-mails: noei. javad @ birjand. ac. ir, noei. javad @ gmail. com. text Persian Journal of Acarology 2022 2022-10-15 11 4 559 631 journal article 10.22073/pja.v11i4.75059 2251-8169 Rhizoglyphus echinopus (Fumouze & Robin, 1868) Distribution in Iran – Isfahan , Khuzestan , Tehran , and West Azerbaijan provinces: Region not mentioned ( Kaussari 1948 ; Farahbakhsh 1961 ; Sepasgozarian 1977 , 1978a ; Daneshvar 1978a , b, c; Behdad 1988 ; Shahhosseini and Kamali 1989 ; Sadeghi Namaghi 1990 ; Sadeghi Namaghi and Kamali 1993 ; Ostovan 1993; Mirfakhraii 1994 ; Modarres Awal 1994 , 1997 ; Fathipour 1994 ; Ostovan and Kamali 1995a ; 1996a ), Razavi Khorasan Province : Mashhad ( Khaleghabadian et al. 2012 ) and Kordestan Province : Region not mentioned ( Maroufpoor and Ostovan 2017 ). General distribution – Argentina , Australia , Brazil , Canada , China , Egypt , England , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , India , Ireland , Japan , Korea , Netherlands , New Zealand , Poland , Romania , Russia , Scotland , Spain , Taiwan , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States , Wales ( Hagstrum et al. 2013 ). Collection place(s) – Bamboo shoots, bulb, Chinese medicine, fatty debris, flax seed, garlic, grain, herb, peanut, shallot, sunflower seed, wheat, wheat spillage (wet, decaying) ( Hagstrum et al. 2013 ).