“…This is the first ever known record outside the locus typicus and the first record in Asia (and new to the fauna of Iran). The most important is the fact that the mite was found in galleries of buprestid beetles, which have never been before disclosed as hosts for any known member of Tarsonemidae, and very rarely in the cohort Heterostigmatina (Husband et al 1995;Coleman et al 2015).…”