Galumna (Galumna) alata

Abstract

Galumna (Galumna) alata (Hermann, 1804) * Material – New record for Turkey. One specimen in Tekke Dağı (mountain) Natural Park, Ankara, N 40° 16′ 96.96′′, E 31° 91′ 72.68′′, alt. = 1485 m, 25 July 2018. Global distribution – Semicosmopolitan. Ecology – All types of habitats. Remarks – Measurements: Body size of Turkish individual is a little smaller (450 × 345 µm) than reported by Perez-Iňigo (1993) and Weigmann (2006), 500–630 µm. All other characters match available descriptions. The species is easy to identify by shape of sensilli, rounded areae porosae which are almost similar in size and group of irregular spots on posterior part of notogaster.Published as part of Murvanidze, Maka, Cilbircioğlu, Cihan, Özdemir, Esengül & Inak, Emre, 2020, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of the Central Black Sea basin of Turkey with new records for the country, pp. 255-277 in Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (3) on page 269, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v9i3.61909, http://zenodo.org/record/5236444