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Abstract
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Mites of the family Tydeidae Kramer, 1877 (Trombidiformes: Tydeoidea) are small, soft-bodied and fast moving mites that act as plants and fungi feeders, scavengers and predators. They live in moss, lichen, soil, litter, rotten wood, humus, mushroom, grass, straw, hay, under and on tree’s barks, plants leaves, bird nests and in stored products. The genus Lorryia described by Oudemans in 1925 and now contains at least 200 species. Mites of this genus previously moved to genus Brachytydeus for some years, but recently came back to their older and correct name, Lorryia. During a survey of tydeoid mites’ fauna in Kermanshah Province (Western Iran), Lorryia subularoides Kaźmierski, 1989, was collected by Berlese-Tullgren funnel from Kermanshah city, pine soil (34º 19' 48" N, 47º 06' 40" E) in 31 March 2012. This is the first record of this species from Iran. This species is characterized by its dorsal "Mesoparalorryia-incerta" type of striation, solenidion ω1 is short and not longer than half width of tarsus I and its peak does not reach the basis of tectal setae. Dorsal idiosomal setae of this species are 17–25 μm. This mite was firstly collected and described from mosses, lichen and detritus in a pine forest of Poland. The knowledge of Lorryia mites in Iran is rudimentary and less than 10 percent of its species have been reported from the country, therefore, more investigations are needed to understand their diversity and geographical distribution.
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