Oribatid mite fauna (Acari) of Çat Forest, Sivas Province, Turkey

Abstract

In this study, the oribatid mite fauna of Çat Forest, Sivas Province, Turkey extracting mites from soil, litter, moss, lichen and tree bark samples taken from 368 different localities in 2014 were investigated. Twenty-four species from 23 genera and 17 families of oribatid mites were found. Among them, two genera (Bipassalozetes, Metabelba) and eight species [

Oppioid oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Erciyes Mountain (Kayseri, Turkey)

“…This superfamily comprises 16 families, 162 genera, 49 subgenera and more than 1100 species (Subías 2004(Subías , updated 2018. So far, 69 species belong to this superfamily have been recorded from Turkey (Toluk 2016, Toluk and Akin 2017, Toluk and Ayyıldız 2008b. Despite, many studies on oribatid mites of Erciyes Mountain (Ayyıldız et al 2011, Baştürk and Toluk 2016, Per and Ayyıldız 2004, Per and Ayyıldız 2005a, 2005b, Per et al 2015, there is no information on the oppioid mites of Erciyes Mountain, so the oppioid oribatid mites inhabiting in the Erciyes Mountain were evaluated from the taxonomic point of view with the aim of contributing to the oribatid fauna of Turkey.…”