Atractides persicus Pesic & Asadi 2010

Atractides persicus Pešić & Asadi, 2010 Studied material. two females, canalets with rich aquatic vegetation and seepage waters fed by springs, 21.07.2008, 37 ° 59.02 ' N, 30 ° 31.03 ' E, 1240 m a.s.l., Gönen plateau, Isparta, Turkey, leg. Y. Ö. Boyaci. Description. Female. Dorsal integument lineated. Idiosoma L/W 1015 – 960 / 750 – 690. Muscle attachment sclerotized (Fig. 3 b). Coxal field: with extended borders of secondary sclerotization, Cx-I +II L 245 – 238, Cx–III+IV L 255 – 249 (Fig. 3 a); gnathosomal bay 130 – 125, Gnathosoma L/W 138 – 130)/ 140 – 133, chelicera 312 – 299. Palp: total L 426 – 406, dL of palp segments (P- 1-5): 40–38, 103 –98,85– 82, 143 –138, 55– 52, H of palp segments (P- 1-5): 33 –30, 53–47, 50–45, 38–35, 28– 25; L P- 2 / 4 ratio 0.72 – 0.71 (Fig. 3 e); P- 4 sword seta inserting proximally from proximoventral hair. Palp cylindrical and the lateral seta on P- 4 positioned behind ventral setae. Genital plates semicircular, L/W 125 – 121)/ 75 – 70, a with 4 pairs of Ac, gonopore 225 – 220 in length, distance between gonopore and excretory pore 175; Vgl- 1 and - 2 fused (Fig. 3 a). I-Legs: I-L- 5 / 6 L 175 – 169 / 60 – 57 (Fig. 3 c,d); S- 1 L 59, S- 2 L 51. of I-L: 29-48 - 70-260 - 175 - 60, L of II-L: 27-41 - 54-120 - 132-148, L of III-L: 34-48 - 68-150 - 174 - 170, L of IV-L: 158 - 70-86, 170 - 182 - 172. Remarks. Due to the genital field with 4 pairs of Ac and similar shape of the palp and I-L, the single specimen from Turkey match description of A. persicus Pešić & Asadi, 2010, a species described from a single male from South Iran (Asadi et al. 2010). Differences are found in a less extensive dorsal and ventral sclerotization in the female specimens from Turkey. Gerecke (2003) mentions that in species of the subgenus Polymegapus muscle attachments and secondary sclerite borders might develop and extend with increasing age. Taxonomy of species from Turkey should be verified by additional material and finding a male specimen.Published as part of Gülle, Pinar & Boyaci, Yunus Ömer, 2014, A new Protzia species and the first description of the female Atractides (Polymegapus) persicus Pešić & Asadi 2010 from Turkey, pp. 585-590 in Zootaxa 3852 (5) on page 586, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/22895

Protzia squamosa Walter 1908

Protzia squamosa Walter, 1908 Studied material. 3 males, 4 females, fast-flowing stream with gravel bottom, Köprüçay Stream, 12.07.2010, 37 o 48.03 ’ N, 36 o 4.06 ’ E, 1220 m a.s.l., Aksu, Isparta, Turkey, leg. Y. Ö. Boyaci. Description. As given in Di Sabatino et al. (2010). Measurements: Female. İdiosoma L/W 780 / 540 (Fig. 2 e). Ggnathosoma L 155, chelicera 193, claw 53. Palp: total palp L 237, dL of palp segments (P- 1-5): 20- 65 - 37- 88 - 27, H of palp segments (P- 1-5): 47-48 - 43 - 30 - 10. Distribution. Central and Eastern Europe (Di Sabatino et al. 2010). New record for Turkey.Published as part of Gülle, Pinar & Boyaci, Yunus Ömer, 2014, A new Protzia species and the first description of the female Atractides (Polymegapus) persicus Pešić & Asadi 2010 from Turkey, pp. 585-590 in Zootaxa 3852 (5) on page 586, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/22895

Beyşehir Gölü Zooplankton Türlerinin Aylık Dağılımı

In this study, Lake Beyşehir water and zooplankton samples were taken in 8 different stations once a month, between May 2009-April 2010. 37 taxa of Rotifera, 5 taxa of Copepoda, 4 taxa of Cladocera and 1 taxa belonging to Bivalvia and a total of 47 species have been identified. The lake-wide total zooplankton density; Rotifera of 95.45%, Cladocera of 3.66%, Copepoda of 0.89% and belong to Bivalvia of <0.01% calculated. Zooplankton was represented by a large portion of micro-zooplankton. Large zooplankter zooplankton such as Daphnia that water filtration capacity is constituted a very small portio

FIGURE 1. Protzia longiacetabulata n in A new Protzia species and the first description of the female Atractides (Polymegapus) persicus Pešić & Asadi 2010 from Turkey

FIGURE 1. Protzia longiacetabulata n. sp., female: a) anterior coxae and genital field, b) left coxae, c) palp, d) gnathosoma and chelicera

A new water mite species from a karstic cavern in southwestern Anatolia: Acherontacarus burduricus n. sp. (Acari, Hydrachnidia)

Gülle, Pinar, Boyaci, Yunus Ömer, Gülle, İskender (2018): A new water mite species from a karstic cavern in southwestern Anatolia: Acherontacarus burduricus n. sp. (Acari, Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa 4394 (4): 590-593, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1

Atractides reinhardi Gülle, Gülle & Boyaci, 2015, n. sp.

&lt;i&gt;Atractides reinhardi&lt;/i&gt; n. sp. &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Type series.&lt;/b&gt; Holotype, female, a pristine spring with dense emergent vegetation (&lt;i&gt;Nasturtium officinale&lt;/i&gt;) with sandy and muddy bottom, of 5&ndash;10 cm depth; 37&deg; 9.44' N, 29&deg; 45.92' E, 1411 m a.s.l., 18.08.2014, &Ccedil;avd&imath;r, Burdur. Turkey. Leg. &Idot;. G&uuml;lle. Paratypes: one female, same data as holotype. Paratypes: two females, spring with rich vegetation dominated by &lt;i&gt;Nasturtium officinale&lt;/i&gt; and sandy and muddy bottom, of depth lower than 10 cm, 37&deg; 23.07' N, 29&deg; 39.52' E, 1695 m a.s.l., 14.09.2013, a small spring above Elmal&imath; highland, E&scedil;eler Mountain, Tefenni, Burdur, Turkey. Leg. &Idot;. G&uuml;lle. Paratypes: two female, historical &Idot;ncirhan fountain (from Seljuk period) fed by karstic sources with aquatic bryophytes and water cress, rocky bottom and depth of below 5 cm, 37&deg; 28.62' N, 30&deg; 32.08' E, 992 m a.s.l., 20.09.2014, Bucak, Burdur, Turkey. Leg.&Idot;. G&uuml;lle Type material dissected and slide mounted in Hoyer&rsquo;s fluid, deposited at the Faculty of Science and Arts, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Diagnosis.&lt;/b&gt; Integument striated; P&ndash;2 with strongly convex ventral surface, covered by fine denticulation; Vgl&ndash;1 not fused to Vgl&ndash;2; P-4 sword seta near distoventral hair; S&ndash;1 much longer than S&ndash;2, I&ndash;L&ndash;6 slender and curved.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Description.&lt;/b&gt; Female (holotype, in parentheses variability of the paratypes given as mean, n = 5): Idiosoma L/W 734(730)/602(600); integument striated. Muscle attachments unsclerotized (Fig. 1 a).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Coxal field: L 307 (304), Cx-I+II W 301 (297), Cx-I+II L 192 (190), Cx-I+II mL 102 (100), Cx-III W 433 (430); capitular bay 108 (105).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Genital plates (Fig. 1 a) L/W 96(94)/30(30); gonopore L 120 (118), Ac 1&ndash;3 L 36, 35, 34; the distance between gonopore and excretory pore 144.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Excretory pore smooth; Vgl&ndash;1 not fused to Vgl&ndash;2.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I-L-5: dL 210 (206), vL 125(123), dL/vL ratio 1.68 (1.67), HA&ndash; HC 64,67,95, dL/HB ratio, 3.13; S&ndash;1 L 130, L/W ratio 13, S-1 long and slender, much longer than S&ndash;2, S-2 L 88, L/W ratio 8, S-1-2 interspace 47 (46); L ratio S&ndash;1/2 1.47. I&ndash;L&ndash;6 slender and curved (Fig. 1 b), L 177 (173) HA&ndash;HC 22, 22, 23; L I&ndash;L&ndash;5/6 ratio 1.18&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Palp: total L 335 (331), dL: 32(31)&ndash;80(78)&ndash;88(86)&ndash;102(103)&ndash;33(33), H: 36(33)&ndash;63(61)&ndash;48(47)&ndash;32(32)&ndash;13(12). P&ndash; 1&ndash;5 L/H ratio: 0.88, 1.26, 1.83, 3.1, 2.5; L ratio P&ndash;2/4 0.78 (0.75); P&ndash;2 with strongly convex ventral surface, covered by fine denticulation (Fig. 1 c). Capitulum L/W 132 (130)/128 (125) (Fig. 1 d), chelicera 179(177) (Fig. 1 d).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Etymology.&lt;/b&gt; The new species is named after Reinhard Gerecke (T&uuml;bingen), a respected acarologist who revised the Western Palearctic &lt;i&gt;Atractides&lt;/i&gt; species.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Remarks.&lt;/b&gt; Due to shape of the P&ndash;2 with strongly convex ventral surface, covered by fine denticulation, &lt;i&gt;Atractides reinhardi&lt;/i&gt; n. sp. resembles &lt;i&gt;A. denticulatus&lt;/i&gt; (Walter, 1947). The latter species belongs to the &lsquo;cisternarum&rsquo; group of species and differs in having the muscle attachments, I&ndash;L&ndash;5 with S&ndash;1 and S&ndash;2 similar in shape, narrow interspace, sclerotized excretory pore, short male gonopore restricted to the anterior part of the genital field, and P&ndash;4 with sword seta near proximoventral seta (Gerecke 2003).&lt;/p&gt;Published as part of &lt;i&gt;Gülle, Pinar, Gülle, İskender &amp; Boyaci, Yunus Ömer, 2015, A new Atractides Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) species from southwestern Turkey, pp. 246-248 in Zootaxa 3957 (2)&lt;/i&gt; on pages 246-248, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.2.11, &lt;a href="http://zenodo.org/record/243223"&gt;http://zenodo.org/record/243223&lt;/a&gt

Köprüçay Irmağı (Antalya) ve Kolları Su Kenesi (Hydrachnidia) Faunası

Bu çalışmada, sucul faunanın önemli temsilcilerinden olan su kenelerinden (Hydrachnidia), Antalya-Isparta il sınırları içerisinde yer alan ve Akdeniz Bölgesi'nin en büyük akarsularından biri olan, su temini ve turizm açısından yüksek öneme sahip, Köprüçay Irmağı ve kollarında yapılan örneklemelerde 18 familyadan 71 tür tespit edilmiştir. Su kenesi türlerin familyalara göre dağılımı Sperchontidae (11), Lebertidae (4), Torrenticolidae (10), Hygrobatidae (13), Aturidae (4), Feltridae (4), Arrenuridae (2), Protzidae (3), Limnesidae (1), Anisitsiellidae (4), Thyasidae (3) Hydrovolziidae (1), Limnocharidae (1), Eylaidae (2), Hydrodromidae (1), Teutoniidae (1), Axonopsidae (4) ve Mideopsidae (2) şeklindedir. Ayrıca, çalışmada Köprüçay Irmağı'nın bazı su kalitesi değerleri de verilmiştir

Acherontacarus burduricus Gülle & Boyaci & Gülle 2018, n. sp.

&lt;i&gt;Acherontacarus burduricus&lt;/i&gt; n. sp. &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Studied material.&lt;/b&gt; Holotype: Adult male, a small karstic cavern in Aksu River valley in Burdur province near Antalya, Turkey, 0 8.07.2014, 37&deg; 23.173 &lt;i&gt;&prime;&lt;/i&gt; N, 30&deg; 50.152 &lt;i&gt;&prime;&lt;/i&gt; E, 380 m a.s.l., leg. &Idot;. G&uuml;lle. Paratypes: one male, three females, same data as holotype. The type material is deposited in E&gbreve;irdir Fisheries Faculty, S&uuml;leyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Diagnosis.&lt;/b&gt; Palp stout, P-2 longer than P- 4 (Fig. 2e). IV-L-5 and IV-L-6 are approximately equal in size. Male IV-L- 5 slightly enlarged to form a groove in basal half and bearing a stout seta in distal part (Fig. 2b). IV-L-4 enlarged, with three pairs of long hairs on the ventral prominence (Fig. 2b).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Description. Both sexes.&lt;/b&gt; Ten pairs of small platelets, surrounding the central plate, four pairs with setae. Dorsal shield with tubercles at lateral and posterior. Anterior plate with straight posterior margin. Cx-I and Cx-II are fused and morphologically similar.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Male.&lt;/b&gt; Idiosoma L/W 900/578. Dorsum with a large posterior plate, L/W 635/440, surrounded by 10 pairs of small platelets, four pairs with setae, anterior plate L/W 175/350; with straight posterior margin; three pairs of setae located on the anterior plate and four pairs of setae on the posterior plate (Fig. 1c). Venter: Gonopore between one pair of genital plates flanked by posterolateral platelets and located posterior to the anteromedial and anterolateral platelets and III-Leg coxal plates, genital field L/W 85/105; excretory pore plate L/W 185/340; posterolateral platelets anteriorly concave embracing genital plates, reaching posterior margin of excretory pore plate (Fig. 1d).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Palp: Palp stout, P-2 is longer than the other parts of palp, capitulum L 237. Palp (Fig. 2d, e), L and setation (in parentheses): P-1, 31; P-2, 170 (four setae); P-3, 95 (two setae); P-4, 110 (three normal setae and one stout ventral seta), P-5, 33.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Leg: Dorsal length and setation (in parentheses) of leg segments: I-L-2, 162; I-L-3, 92; I-L-4, 135; I-L-5, 133,;I-L-6, 132; II-L-2, 190; II-L-3, 98; II-L-4, 154; II-L-5, 148; II-L-6, 144; III-L-2, 320; III-L-3, 125; III-L-4, 165; III-L-5, 150; III-L-6, 245; IV-L-1, 70; IV-L-2, 340; IV-L-3, 140; IV-L-4, 240 (three long setae in ventral side); IV-L-5, 180 (1 stout, 8 setae); IV- L-6, 245 (13 dorsal setae, 8 stout lateral setae, plus 11 distal setae (Fig. 2a,b).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Female.&lt;/b&gt; Idiosoma L/W 945/600. Dorsum: anterior plate L/W 160/340; posterior plate L/W 680/425 (Fig. 1a). Venter: gonopore between paired genital plates flanked by posterolateral platelets and located posterior to the anteromedial and anterolateral platelets and III-Leg coxal plates, genital field L/W 185/85; posterior part of excretory pore plate narrower than in male, L/W 200/300; posterolateral platelets curved anteriorly around genital plates, not reaching posterior margin of excretory pore plate (Fig. 1b). Capitulum L 300.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Palp, L and setation (in parentheses): P-1, 36; P-2, 192 (three setae); P-3, 98; P-4, 109; P-5, 36.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legs without swimming setae; dL: I-L-2, 170; I-L-3, 88; I-L-4, 166; I-L-5, 130; I-L-6, 131; IV-L-2, 345; IV-L-3, 145; IV- L-4, 250; IV-L-5, 177; IV-L-6, 224.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Etymology.&lt;/b&gt; The species is named after the area of the collecting site, Burdur province, Turkey.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Remarks.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Acherontacarus burduricus&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;n. sp&lt;/b&gt;. is the third &lt;i&gt;Acherontacarus&lt;/i&gt; species recorded from Turkey, following &lt;i&gt;A. anatolicus&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;A. rutilans&lt;/i&gt; (Boyac&imath; &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt; 2010; Aykut &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt; 2016). Together with the species &lt;i&gt;A. dividuus&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;A. vietsi&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;A. bicornis&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;A. tuberculatus&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;A. nicoleiana&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;A&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;i&gt;anatolicus&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;A. burduricus&lt;/i&gt; belongs to a species group characterized by the presence of stout setae on the male IV-L-6.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;Acherontacarus burduricus&lt;/i&gt; &lt;b&gt;n. sp&lt;/b&gt;. differs from all known &lt;i&gt;Acherontacarus&lt;/i&gt; species in the shape of IV-L-5, in its basal half slightly enlarged to form a groove, in the distal half with a stout seta.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;Acherontacarus anatolicus&lt;/i&gt; differs from &lt;i&gt;A. burduricus&lt;/i&gt; also in the presence of a ventral extension on P-3 (Boyac&imath; &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt; 2010). &lt;i&gt;Acherontacarus cedro&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;A. rutilans&lt;/i&gt; have a relatively shorter P-2, but a longer P-5 (Gerecke &amp; Benfatti 2004).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;Acherontacarus vietsi&lt;/i&gt; can be easily distinguished by the presence of only two thick setae on IV-L-6 and &lt;i&gt;A. bicornis&lt;/i&gt; is characterized by a thick seta on the expanded distal half of IV-L-6 (Valdecasas &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt; 2005). IV-L-6 is not expanded in &lt;i&gt;A. anatolicus&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;A. nicoleiana&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;A. burduricus&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;i&gt;Acherontacarus anatolicus&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;A. burduricus&lt;/i&gt; (8-9 stout setae in IV-L-6) differ from &lt;i&gt;A. nicoleiana&lt;/i&gt; with 6-7 stout setae in the same region. In &lt;i&gt;A. dividuus&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;A. burduricus&lt;/i&gt;, IV-L-5 and IV-L-6 are approximately equal in size while in &lt;i&gt;A. nicoleiana&lt;/i&gt;, IV-L-5 is longer than IV-L-6 (Gerecke &amp; Benfatti 2004; Valdecasas &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt; 2005; Boyac&imath; &lt;i&gt;et al.&lt;/i&gt; 2010).&lt;/p&gt;Published as part of &lt;i&gt;Gülle, Pinar, Boyaci, Yunus Ömer &amp; Gülle, İskender, 2018, A new water mite species from a karstic cavern in southwestern Anatolia: Acherontacarus burduricus n. sp. (Acari, Hydrachnidia), pp. 590-593 in Zootaxa 4394 (4)&lt;/i&gt; on pages 590-593, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.10, &lt;a href="http://zenodo.org/record/1199896"&gt;http://zenodo.org/record/1199896&lt;/a&gt

A new Atractides Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) species from southwestern Turkey

Gülle, Pinar, Gülle, İskender, Boyaci, Yunus Ömer (2015): A new Atractides Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) species from southwestern Turkey. Zootaxa 3957 (2): 246-248, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3957.2.1

Checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of Turkey: First supplement

Erman, Orhan, Gülle, Pinar, Özkan, Muhlis, Candoğan, Hülya, Boyaci, Yunus Ömer (2019): Checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of Turkey: First supplement. Zootaxa 4686 (3): 376-396, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4686.3.