TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - A new species and three new records of poronotic oribatid mites associated with water buffalo dung in the Kizilirmak Delta in Türkiye
VL  - 65
IS  - 1
SP  - 52
EP  - 66
PY  - 2025
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Yaşa, Merve
AU  - Ozman-Sullivan, Sebahat K. 
AU  - Sullivan, Gregory T. 
AU  - Baş, Hüseyin
AU  - Baran, Şule
UR  - https://doi.org/10.24349/cnt5-mgbd
DO  - 10.24349/cnt5-mgbd
DA  - 2025-01-20
ET  - 2025-01-20
KW  - Acari
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - faunistic
KW  - morphology
KW  - niche
AB  - Animal dung is an ephemeral, nutrient-rich resource that supports constantly changing, highly biodiverse invertebrate communities. The dung of large herbivores is especially attractive to invertebrates. Seven oribatid mite species in seven different families were collected from water buffalo dung from the Kizilirmak Delta on the Black Sea coast of Samsun Province in northern Türkiye. One new species, Plakoribates cernekensis n. sp. (Tegoribatidae) is described and illustrated. Bipassalozetes (B.) intermedius (Mihelčič, 1954) (Passalozetidae), Oribatella (Sacculoribatella) nasuorum Fujikawa, 2012 (Oribatellidae) and Humerobates rostrolamellatus Grandjean, 1936 (Humerobatidae) are new records for Türkiye. Peloptulus montanus Hull, 1914 (Phenopelopidae), Oribatula (O.) interrupta (Willmann, 1939) (Oribatulidae) and Scheloribates (S.) pallidulus (Koch, 1841) (Scheloribatidae) were also collected. Further taxonomic investigation of the richly biodiverse Kizilirmak Delta wetlands would likely reveal many new invertebrate species.
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