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Systematic & Applied Acarology (2003) 8, 131-144

Descriptions of two new species and a newly recorded species of Eustigmaeus from Turkey (Acari: Stigmaeidae)

SAL§H DOGAN¹, NUSRET AYYILDIZ² & QING-HAI FAN³

1 Department of Biology, Kazim Karabekir Education Faculty, Atatürk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey, e- mail: sadogan@atauni.edu.tr

2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Erciyes University, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey, e- mail: nayildiz@erciyes.edu.tr

3 College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China, e- mail: qhfan@pub2.fz.fj.cn

Abstract

Eustigmaeus is one of the largest genera of the Stigmaeidae and contains more than eighty species. Two new species, Eustigmaeus erciyesiensis, ex moss, from Erciyes Mountain (2230 m) and Eustigmaeus sculptus, ex soil and litter under different plants, are described from Erzurum, Elazig, Bingöl, Kirikkale and Gümüshane, Turkey. Another species, E. ioanninensis Kapaxidi & Papadoulis, originally found in Greece, is recorded for the Turkish fauna and re-described. A key to the species known from Turkey is provided.

Key words: Acari, Stigmaeidae, Eustigmaeus, new species, new record, Turkey.

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