Title First report of the family Gehypochthoniidae (Acari: Oribatida) from Iran Type of Research Article Keywords First report , Gehypochthoniidae Abstract Soil mite fauna of the Marand region of East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, was studied during 2014. In this paper, we report the first record of the family Gehypochthoniidae and Gehypochthonius rhadamanthus from Iran. Researchers Elnaz Movahedzade (First Researcher)، Parisa Lotfollahi (Second Researcher)، Elizabeth Hugo-Coetzee (Third Researcher)