TY - JOUR T1 - New records of water mite (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) species for the Turkish fauna AU - Esen, Yunus AU - Özdilek, Murat PY - 2023 DA - January DO - 10.47121/acarolstud.1223782 JF - Acarological Studies JO - Acarol. Stud. PB - Salih DOĞAN WT - DergiPark SN - 2667-5684 SP - 34 EP - 41 VL - 5 IS - 1 LA - en AB - In this study, torrenticolid water mite specimens collected from Kulp district (Diyarbakır, Türkiye) between 2020-2021 years were evaluated. Totaly, 15 species are determined belonging to the family Torrenticolidae. Torrenticola (s.str.) laskai Di Sabatino, 2009, Torrenticola (Megapalpis) persica Pesic, 2004 and Monatractides (s.str.) persicus Pesic, 2004 are new records for the fauna of Türkiye. The male of Torrenticola (Megapalpis) persica has been described for the first time. KW - Monatractides KW - Torrenticola KW - new record KW - Kulp district KW - Diyarbakır KW - Türkiye CR - Boyacı, Y.Ö. 1995. A systematic study on water mites (Hydrachnellae, Acari) of Konya province and its surroundings. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Atatürk University, Institute of Science, 235 pp. [In Turkish] CR - Boyacı, Y.Ö., Gülle, P. and Gülle, İ. 2012. Water mite (Hydrachnidia) fauna of Köprüçay River (Antalya) and its branches. Süleyman Demirel University Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences, 16 (1): 29-32. [In Turkish] CR - Di Sabatino, A., Gerecke, R., Gledhill, T. and Smit, H. 2009. On the taxonomy of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 2: Hydryphantoidea and Lebertioidea. Zootaxa, 2266: 1-34. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2266.1.1 CR - Di Sabatino, A., Gerecke, R., Gledhill, T. and Smit, H. 2010. Chelicerata: Acari 2. In: Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa. Gerecke, R. (Ed.). Vol. 7: 2-2, Elsevier GmbN, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, München, Germany, 1-134. CR - Durucan, F. and Boyacı, Y.Ö. 2020. The water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of Isparta province, Turkey. Acta Aquatica Turcica, 16 (3): 366-369. doi: 10.22392/actaquatr.692323 CR - Erman, O., Gülle, P., Özkan, M., Candoğan, H. and Boyaci, Y.Ö. 2019. Checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of Turkey: First supplement. Zootaxa, 4686 (3): 376-396. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.3.4 CR - Erman, O., Pešić, V., Esen, Y. and Özkan, M. 2010. A check-list of the water mites of Turkey (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 2624: 1-48. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2624.1.1 CR - Fisher J.R., Fisher, D.M., Nelson, W.A., O’Neill, J.C., Skvarla, M.J., Radwell, A.J., Ochoa, R., Bauchan, G. and Dowling, A.P.G. 2015. An integrative description of Torrenticola trimaculata sp. n. (Parasitengona: Torrenticolidae), a three-spotted, riffle-dwelling mite from eastern North America: morphology, phylogenetics, and taxonomic history of the genus. Acarologia, 55: 71-116. doi: 10.1051/acarologia/20152155 CR - Fisher, J.R., Fisher, D.M., Skvarla, M.J., Nelson, W.A. and Dowling, A.P.G. 2017. Revision of torrent mites (Parasitengona, Torrenticolidae, Torrenticola) of the United States and Canada: 90 descriptions, molecular phylogenetics, and a key to species. ZooKeys, 701: 1-496. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.701.13261 CR - Gerecke, R., Weigmann, G., Wohltmann, A. and Wurst, E. 2007. Order Acari – General introduction and key to major groups. In: Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa. Gerecke, R. (Ed.). Vol. 7: 2-1, Elsevier GmbH, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, München, Germany, 14-57. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-55958-1_2 CR - Gülle, P. 2010. Water mite (Hydracnidia: Acari) fauna of Antalya province. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Süleyman Demirel Univesity, Department of Fisheries and Basic Sciences, 173 pp. [In Turkish] CR - Gülle, P., Gülle, İ. and Boyacı, Y.Ö. 2017. Water mites (Hydrachnidia: Acari) fauna of Burdur province, Turkey. The Journal of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences of Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, 8 (Supp. 1): 218-220. [In Turkish] doi: 10.29048/makufebed.330538 CR - Pešić, V. and Saboori, A. 2004. Water mite species of the genus Monatractides K. Viets (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Iran, with the description of two new species, Zootaxa, 673: 1-10. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.673.1.1 CR - Pesic, V., Saboori, A. and Asadi, M. 2004. Water mites of the genus Torrenticola Piersig (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Iran. International Journal of Limnology, 40 (3): 231-236. doi: 10.1051/limn/2004023 CR - Zhang, Z.Q., Fan, Q.H., Pesic, V., Smit, H., Bochkov, A.V., Khaustov, A. A., Baker, A., Wohltmann, A., Wen, T., Amrine, J.W., Beron, P., Lin, J., Gabrys, G. and Husband, R. 2011. Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.). Zootaxa, 3148: 129-134. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.24 UR - https://doi.org/10.47121/acarolstud.1223782 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2850608 ER -