First record of the genus Rhinothrombium (Trombidiformes: Tanaupodidae) from Türkiye: Rhinothrombium nemoricola (Berlese)

Abstract

The genus Rhinothrombium (Tanaupodidae) is represented in the world by three species: R. nemoricola (Berlese, 1886), R. inopinum Hull, 1918 and R. wuxiensis Zhang, 1993. In this study, morphological characters, micrographs of various organs and distribution of postlarval forms of R. nemoricola are given. This is the first record of the genus Rhinothrombium from Türkiye.

Keywords

• Acari
• biodiversity
• distribution
• first record
• Parasitengonina

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