A comprehensive study of phrotic mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) related to bark beetles in Northern Turkey, introducing new findings

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>In the Kastamonu forests of Turkey's Black Sea Region, researchers collected 11 mite species from the Mesostigmata group associated with <italic>Ips sexdentatus</italic> (Börner), <italic>Ips acuminatus</italic> (Gyllenhal), and <italic>Tomicus piniperda</italic> (Linnaeus) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), as well as within their galleries. Among these, species such as <italic>Ameroseius longitrichus</italic> Hirschmann, 1963; <italic>Cercoleipus kuznetsovi</italic> Khaustov, 1997; <italic>Dendrolaelaps quadrisetosimilis</italic> Hirschmann, 1960; <italic>Dendrolaelaps quadrisetus</italic> Berlese, 1920; <italic>Hypoaspis maryamae</italic> Joharchi &amp; Halliday, 2011; <italic>Lasioseius ometes</italic> Oudemans, 1903; <italic>Pleuronectocelaeno barbara</italic> Athias-Henriot, 1959; <italic>Proctolaelaps hystrix</italic> Vitzthum, 1923; <italic>Schizocyrtillus rarus</italic> Khaustov, 2000 and <italic>Stratiolaelaps scimitus</italic> Womersley, 1956 were reported for the first time in Turkey.</p>