A new species of the genus Trombidium (Acari: Trombidioidea) parasitic on a spider species in Turkey

Abstract

Trombidium demirsoyi sp. nov. Sevsay and Buğa is described and illustrated from larvae collected as ectoparasites on Zodarion thoni Nosek, 1905 and off-host from the soil in Çanakkale Province, Turkey. This is the first record of a species of the spider family Zodariidae as a host for an ectoparasitic larva of a Trombidium Fabricius species.

Keywords

• Araneae,ectoparasite,host-parasite association,parasitengona,Trombidiidae

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