First record of the genus Rhinothrombium (Trombidiformes: Tanaupodidae) from Türkiye: Rhinothrombium nemoricola (Berlese)
Author
Torunlar, Alper
DepartMent of Biology, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Erzincan Binali YIldIrIM University, Türkiye
Author
Buğa, Evren
Medical Laboratory Techniques PrograM, İliÇ Dursun YIldIrIM Vocational School, Erzincan Binali YIldIrIM University, Türkiye
Author
Sevsay, Sevgi
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Erzincan Binali YIldIrIM University, Türkiye
ssevsay@erzincan.edu.tr
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Acarological Studies
2023
2023-07-31
5
2
94
98
http://dx.doi.org/10.47121/acarolstud.1320368
journal article
10.47121/acarolstud.1320368
2667-5684
A3C86D4A-DF8D-4ABA-AB8C-22FE5FE20696
Rhinothrombium wuxiensis
Zhang, 1993
[Postlarvae]
Distribution:
China
(
Mąkol and Wohltmann, 2012
).
Karakurt (2016)
gave some of specimens as
Rhinothrombium nemoricola
in his PhD thesis and later this species was published as
Eothrombium siculum
due to the structure of the anterior part of the crista (
Karakurt, 2016
;
Karakurt and Sevsay, 2020
). The members of
Eothrombium
separate from other postlarval of
Rhinothrombium
by the shape of the anterior part of crista. While end of anterior part of crista is bifurcate in
Eothrombium
, it is linear in
Rhinothrombium
. Also, naso is absent in
Eothrombium
while
Rhinothrombium
has naso.
The knowledge of the systematics and biology of the group tanaupodids is still fragmentary, and is caused mainly by the rarity of occurrence of these mites, and the consequent limited material that has been published about them (
Mąkol and Featherstone, 2021
). The number of individuals in two sexes is very low. As specimens number of both deutonymph and adult stages increases, the differences between them will be more understandable.