Agauopsis brevipalpus (Trouessart, 1889)

Chatterjee, Tapas & Durucan, Furkan, 2022, A checklist of halacarid and pontarachnid mites (Acari: Halacaridae and Pontarachnidae) found in seagrass habitats, Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (2), pp. 187-223 : 191

Agauopsis brevipalpus (Trouessart, 1889)

Report found in seagrass habitats – This species was reported among seagrass and also in mixed habitat containing Zostera sp. and algae Fucus sp. , Sargassum sp. from Rovinj (Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Viets 1939, 1940); among Posidonia sp. , Zostera sp. from Split, Croatia (Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Viets 1939, 1940); from Naples, Italy (Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Mari and Morselli 1990); among Posidonia oceanica from Bozcaada, Çanakkale (Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Durucan 2021a); among Posidonia oceanica from Cala del Cuartel, Santa Pola, southeastern Spain (Alboran Sea, Mediterranean Sea) ( Martínez et al. 2021).

Remarks – This species has been reported in a variety of substrata from tidal and subtidal area of northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea ( Trouessart 1889b, c, 1901; Viets 1940; Bartsch 1996a; Durucan and Boyaci 2018; Durucan 2020).