Contributions to the Turkish oribatid fauna (Acari: Oribatida) from Bolu province

Authors: AYŞE TOLUK, NUSRET AYYILDIZ

Abstract: Four oribatid mites new to the Turkish fauna, namely Licneremaeus licnophorus (Michael, 1882), Moritzoppia (Moritzoppia) tridentata (Forsslund, 1942), Lauroppia maritima acuminata (Strenzke, 1951), and Banksinoma lanceolata lanceolata (Michael, 1885), collected from Bolu province, Turkey, are given with their drawings and SEM photographs. On the basis of the collected samples, their morphological features and distributions in the world are also presented.

Keywords: Acari, Oribatida, Licneremaeidae, Oppiidae, Thyrisomidae, taxonomy, new records, Bolu, Turkey

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