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Mesostigmata Mites (Acari: Parasitiformes) Associated With Birds And Their Nests From, Mohamed Waleed Negm, Azza Abdelgawad Mohamed, Hosam Mohamed Khalil El-Gepaly, Safaa Mohamed Abdelaziz
Mesostigmata Mites (Acari: Parasitiformes) Associated With Birds And Their Nests From, Mohamed Waleed Negm, Azza Abdelgawad Mohamed, Hosam Mohamed Khalil El-Gepaly, Safaa Mohamed Abdelaziz
Turkish Journal of Zoology
A survey of gamasid mites (Arachnida: Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with domestic and wild birds in Egypt was conducted. In total, 16 species within 10 families were collected from 22 bird species. The most abundant species belonged to the genera Dermanyssus Dugès (Dermanyssidae), Ornithonyssus Sambon, and Steatonyssus Kolenati (both Macronyssidae). Among various birds examined, the distribution and occurrence of mites were recorded. Taxonomic remarks about the morphology of the collected mites are presented to facilitate species discrimination for non-acarologists. Steatonyssus longipes Radovsky & Yunker, 1963, previously described as a new species from the Egyptian slit-faced bat, Nycteris thebaica Geoffroy (Chiroptera), is …
A New Species Of Oxyoppia (Oxyoppiella) (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae) From Iran, Elizabeth Hugo Coetzee, Parisa Lotfollahi, Ayda Abbasi Kalo, Elnaz Movahedzade
A New Species Of Oxyoppia (Oxyoppiella) (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae) From Iran, Elizabeth Hugo Coetzee, Parisa Lotfollahi, Ayda Abbasi Kalo, Elnaz Movahedzade
Turkish Journal of Zoology
A new oppiid species (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae), Oxyoppia (Oxyoppiella) minuscula sp. nov. from the Marand region in northwestern East Azerbaijan Province in Iran, is described and illustrated. A new generic (subgeneric) diagnosis of Oxyoppia (Oxyoppiella) Subías and Rodríguez, 1986 is given, and a key to all known species is provided.
To What Extent Do Pine And Oak Clear-Cut Stumps Support Mite (Acari: Mesostigmata) Communities In Temperate Forests?, Jacek Kamczyc, Emilia Pers-Kamczyc, Przemyslaw Watral, Jakub Sokolowski, Bartosz Bulaj
To What Extent Do Pine And Oak Clear-Cut Stumps Support Mite (Acari: Mesostigmata) Communities In Temperate Forests?, Jacek Kamczyc, Emilia Pers-Kamczyc, Przemyslaw Watral, Jakub Sokolowski, Bartosz Bulaj
Turkish Journal of Zoology
Mesostigmatid mites are one of the natural elements of soil fauna, but they are also found in decomposing wood. Many studies have focused on mites in decayed logs; however, information about the mite communities in decayed stumps and additionally in the adjacent litter is scarce. The primary objective of this study was to analyze how the mite fauna differs between Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and sessile oak [Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.] stumps, as well as to discover how much the stumps affect the soil mite community in temperate forests. This study was conducted in two managed forests (pine versus …
Phoretic Mites In Uni- And Bivoltine Populations Of Ips Typographus: A 1-Year Case Study, Martin Cejka, Jaroslav Holusa
Phoretic Mites In Uni- And Bivoltine Populations Of Ips Typographus: A 1-Year Case Study, Martin Cejka, Jaroslav Holusa
Turkish Journal of Zoology
Members of the order Mesostigmata frequently use other animals to colonize suitable habitats, and thus their phoretic exploitation of bark beetles is not exceptional. We compared the abundance and species spectrum of phoretic mites in univoltine and bivoltine populations of the European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus. Two localities with high population densities of Ips typographus in the eastern part of the Czech Republic (400 and 1100 m a.s.l.) were studied. Beetles were sampled with pheromone traps baited with IT Ecolure (5 per locality). In total, 1268 I. typographus individuals were captured, from which 1662 mite individuals were collected and …