The mite fauna of Ekşisu Marshes in Erzincan (Turkey)

Authors

SALİH DOĞAN
SEVGİ SEVSAY
NUSRET AYYILDIZ
HASAN HÜSEYİN ÖZBEK
SİBEL DİLKARAOĞLU
ORHAN ERMAN
HAKAN AKSOY

DOI

10.3906/zoo-1407-3

Abstract

Reedbeds can be characterized as forming a transition between the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They have distinctive animals adapted to living in aqueous conditions. Because of the lack of data on the mite fauna in marsh habitats of Turkey, this faunistic study was conducted in the Ekşisu Marshes, which resulted in collecting and determining 58 species and 36 genera belonging to 29 families. Of these, Stigmaeus sphagneti (Hull), Neothrombium neglectum (Bruyant), Podothrombium macrocarpum Berlese, Johnstoniana eximia (Berlese), Calyptostomata velutinus (Müller), Heminothrus humicola (Forsslund), Astegistes pilosus (Koch), Achipteria coleoptrata (Linnaeus), and Lauritzenia elegans (Kunst) are new records for the Turkish fauna. The diagnostic features and distributions throughout the world of the species that were determined as newly recorded for Turkey are given. This is also the first report of the families Calyptostomatidae and Neothrombidiidae from Turkey.

Keywords

Mite, fauna, new records, Ekşisu Marshes, Erzincan, Turkey

First Page

571

Last Page

579

Recommended Citation

DOĞAN, SALİH; SEVSAY, SEVGİ; AYYILDIZ, NUSRET; ÖZBEK, HASAN HÜSEYİN; DİLKARAOĞLU, SİBEL; ERMAN, ORHAN; and AKSOY, HAKAN (2015) "The mite fauna of Ekşisu Marshes in Erzincan (Turkey)," Turkish Journal of Zoology: Vol. 39: No. 4, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1407-3
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/vol39/iss4/5