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Issue: Vol. 4418 No. 5: 10 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.5
Page range: 481–492
Abstract views: 38
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A new species and subgenus of Pachylaelaps Berlese from Turkey (Acari: Pachylaelapidae)

Faculty of Science and Arts, Erzincan University, 24030 Erzincan, Turkey.
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Gamasida soil mites morphology description systematics Turkey Acari

Abstract

This paper reports on three interesting species of the mite family Pachylaelapidae from Turkey (Acari: Mesostigmata). A new subgenus Longipachys Mašán & Ӧzbek, subgen. nov., with type species Pachylaelaps (Longipachylaelaps) anatolicus Ӧzbek, is erected in the genus Pachylaelaps Berlese. The description of P. anatolicus is extended to include females and males found in leaf litter in various habitats. A new species Pachylaelaps (Pachylaelaps) armiger sp. nov. is described, and compared with related species that have a polydentate chelicera. Pachylaelaps (Pachylaelaps) evansi Costa, 1971, a species previously reported from Israel, is recorded in Turkey for the first time.

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