Oribatella (Sacculoribatella) nasuorum Fujikawa, 2012

Oribatella (Sacculoribatella) nasuorum Fujikawa, 2012 View in CoL

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Body length 345-386, width 222-272.

Diagnostic characters — Body colour dark reddish-brown. Integument punctate. Rostrum rounded. Median triangular tooth on the prodorsum between the lamellae. Rostral (60), bothridial (79), lamellar (91) and interlamellar (127) setae bacilliform and barbed. Ten pairs of notogastral setae (26), spiniform. Outer edges of lamella and anterior edges of pteromorphae slightly serrate. Four pairs of sacculi, ocellate. Epimeral seta 4c thick and barbed. Genital and anal plate lengths 40 μm and 52 μm, respectively, with distance between them 75 μm. Genital (8), aggenital (10), anal (9) and adanal (10) setae setiform. Lyrifissure iad preanal. Legs heterotridactylous.

Material examined — Three adults, 16 April 2015, site 1.

World distribution — Japan ( Subías 2022, online version 2024).

Remarks — There are only two known species in the subgenus Oribatella (Sacculoribatella) Shtanchaeva and Subias, 2012 : Oribatella (S.) caspica Shtanchaeva and Subias, 2012 from the Caucasus region, and O. (S.) nasuorum from Japan ( Subías 2022, online version 2024). Habitats of O. (S.) nasuorum have been reported to be Quercus sp. , Alnus sp. , grassland, litter, humus and garden soil ( Fujikawa 2012 ; Chinone 2022). The subgenus Oribatella (Sacculoribatella) was recorded from dry water buffalo dung in this study. This is the first record of this subgenus from Türkiye.