Furkan Durucan, Yunus Omer Boyaci

First record of Atelopsalis pacifica (Acari: Halacaridae) from Turkey

ISSN: 2458-8989
Başlangıç: 2015
Yayıncı: Cemal TURAN

The genus Atelopsalis is reported for the first time from Turkey. The material examined in the present study was collected at Kaş (36.157583° N, 29.630333° E) from 30 m depth on the West Coast of Antalya in Turkey. General information on the morphology of a protonymph of male Atelopsalis pacifica are described in this paper, with original illustrations.

Keywords:

Atelopsalis, Acari, Halacaridae Mediterranean Sea, Antalya,

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