Acarus immobilis Griffiths 1964

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<i>Acarus immobilis</i> Griffiths, 1964 Width: 266.25 ± 0.30 (221.91–317.42), length: 460.85 ± 0.38 (393.87–520.35) (n = 10). <i>Specimens examined</i> Ta&amp;scedil;köprü/ Centrum garlic storage, 7.VI.2014 (4 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 4 &amp;male;&amp;male;); Ta&amp;scedil;köprü/ A&amp;gbreve;c&amp;imath;ki&amp;scedil;i Village. 10.IV.2015 (42 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 23 &amp;male;&amp;male;); Ta&amp;scedil;köprü Donalar Village garlic storage. 11.VII.2015 (4 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 5 &amp;male;&amp;male;). <i>Comments</i> <i>Acarus immobilis</i> was reported by Çobano&amp;gbreve;lu (1996) on wheat in Edirne. The damage of this mite was also identified on kashar cheese by Çobano&amp;gbreve;lu and Toros (1988). This mite is a polyphagous species, which is known as flour-cereal mite. Its hosts are flour, seed, onion, garlic, pet food, oilseed, harvested grain, hay, grass, soils, medicinal plants, cheese, abandoned beehives, deep poultry (Solomon 1962; Solarz <i>et al</i>. 1997; Mason 2004; Webster <i>et al</i>. 2004). In this study, it was found on head, green parts and storage of garlic cultivation areas in six villages of Ta&amp;scedil;köprü.

Published as part of <i>Cilbircioğlu, Cihan &amp; Çobanoğlu, Sultan, 2019, Phytophagous mite (Acari) species on garlic (Allium sativum L.) cultivation areas and storages of Kastamonu, Turkey, pp. 211-224 in Persian Journal of Acarology 8 (3)</i> on page 218, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v8i3.46349, http://zenodo.org/record/7173998