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

Ayþe TOLUK, Nusret AYYILDIZ
Erciyes University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 38039 Kayseri - TURKEY

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.

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

Turk. J. Zool., 35, (2011), 63-70.
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