Published January 15, 2020 | Version v1
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Porohalacarus alpinus

  • 1. Işıklar Caddesi No 16, TR- 07100 Antalya, Turkey; E-mail: f _ durucan @ hotmail. com

Description

Porohalacarus alpinus (Thor, 1910) (Figs. 6G, H)

Material examined

1 protonymph, slow running water canal, on sediments and stones, Fethiye, Çiftlik, 14 September 2019, coll. F. Durucan.

Morphology and notes

Idiosoma 185 long, 110 wide. Idiosoma slender. Dark spots of eye pigment underneath AD and OC. AD 55 long, 58 wide. OC 25 long, 13 wide. PD 125 long, 70 wide. GA 40 long, 23 wide (Figs. 6G, H). The protonymph specimens are similar to deutonymph and adult ones. The adult and deutonymph of P. alpinus previously recorded from standing waters of three different provinces of Turkey by Durucan and Boyacı (2019).

Distribution The species was described based on only one female for the first time from Norway by Thor in 1910 and afterwards recorded from Europe (from Finland and Iceland to Italy), Black Sea (Turkey) North Africa, North America (United States and Canada), Australia and New Zealand (Bartsch 2009); Madagascar (Bartsch 2018) Turkey: Mehmet Manavoğlu Park (Antalya), Lake Eğirdir (Isparta), Lake Işıklı (Denizli) (Durucan and Boyacı 2019). Present record: Fethiye, Çiftlik (Muğla).

Notes

Published as part of Durucan, Furkan, 2020, Two new genera, Limnohalacarus and Soldanellonyx (Acari: Halacaridae) in freshwater halacarid mites with additional new records from Turkey, pp. 1-11 in Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v9i1.57733, http://zenodo.org/record/3755924

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Halacaridae
Genus
Porohalacarus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Thor
Species
alpinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Porohalacarus alpinus (Thor, 1910) sec. Durucan, 2020

References

  • Thor, S. (1910) Die erste norwegische Susswasserform der Halacariden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 36: 348 - 351.
  • Durucan, F. & Boyaci, Y. O. (2019) Contribution to the knowledge of freshwater halacarid mites (Acari: Halacaridae) from Turkey. Acta Aquatica Turcica, 15 (3): 318 - 324.
  • Bartsch, I. (2009) Checklist of marine and freshwater halacarid mite genera and species (Halacaridae: Acari) with notes on synonyms, habitats, distribution and descriptions of the taxa. Zootaxa, 1998: 1 - 170.
  • Bartsch, I. (2018) Freshwater halacarid mites (Acari: Halacaridae) from Madagascar-new records, keys and notes on distribution and biology. Bonn zoological Bulletin, 67 (2): 79 - 99.