The members of the family Cunaxidae (snout mites) are free-living predators that ambush or capture their prey with silk traps (Alberti & Ehrnsberger, 1977). They are recorded from plants, mosses, litter, decomposing bark, soil, stored products and rat burrows (den Heyer, 1981). They prey on a wide variety of small animals, such as nematodes, insects and other mites (Walter & Kaplan, 1991). These cunaxids also showed cannibalism behavior. This family belongs to the superfamily Bdelloidea (snout mites) and are counted predatory and cosmopolitan mites in suborder Prostigmata. In this order, study on identification of the mites of associated with soil and litter under cultivar and un-cultivar plants in some parts of Hamedan region, Western Iran, was carried out during 2015-2016. The collected mite specimens were directly mounted by using Hoyer’s medium, and identified by means of (DIC) an Olympus microscope. In this survey, 9 species belonging to 5 genera from Cunaxidae were collected and identified. The scientific name of species according to the taxonomic position are listed as follows: Cunaxa capreolus Berlese, 1890, Cunaxa setirostris (Hermann, 1804), Cunaxoides decastroae den Heyer, Ueckermann & Khanjani, 2013; Cunaxoides sp., Dactyloscirus sp., Lupaeus iranensis den Heyer, Ueckermann & Khanjani, 2013; Lupaeus sp., Pulaeus razanensis den Heyer, Ueckermann & Khanjani, 2013; Pulaeus sp. Among them C. capreolus, C. setirostris were recorded widely and abundantly from different parts of Iran.
