Porohalacarus alpinus ( Thor, 1910 )

Durucan, Furkan, 2020, Two new genera, Limnohalacarus and Soldanellonyx (Acari: Halacaridae) in freshwater halacarid mites with additional new records from Turkey, Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (1), pp. 1-11 : 5

Porohalacarus alpinus ( Thor, 1910)

( Figs. 6G, H )

Material examined

1 protonymph, slow running water canal, on sediments and stones, Fethiye, Çiftlik, 14 September 2019, coll. F. Durucan.

Morphology and notes

Idiosoma 185 long, 110 wide. Idiosoma slender. Dark spots of eye pigment underneath AD and OC. AD 55 long, 58 wide. OC 25 long, 13 wide. PD 125 long, 70 wide. GA 40 long, 23 wide ( Figs. 6G, H ). The protonymph specimens are similar to deutonymph and adult ones. The adult and deutonymph of P. alpinus previously recorded from standing waters of three different provinces of Turkey by Durucan and Boyacı (2019).

Distribution The species was described based on only one female for the first time from Norway by Thor in 1910 and afterwards recorded from Europe (from Finland and Iceland to Italy), Black Sea ( Turkey) North Africa, North America ( United States and Canada), Australia and New Zealand ( Bartsch 2009); Madagascar ( Bartsch 2018) Turkey: Mehmet Manavoğlu Park (Antalya), Lake Eğirdir (Isparta), Lake Işıklı (Denizli) ( Durucan and Boyacı 2019). Present record: Fethiye, Çiftlik (Muğla).

Figures

Figure 6. Soldanellonyx monardi Walter, 1919 (female) – A. idiosoma, dorsal view; B. idiosoma, ventral view; C. gnathosoma, ventral view and chelicera, lateral view; D. palp, medial view; E. leg I, lateral view; F. Genitoanal plate, deutonymph; G–H. Porohalacarus alpinus (Thor, 1910), deutonymph; G. idiosoma, dorsal view; H. Genitoanal plate. Scale bars: 50 µm.