Paraseiulus triporus (Chant and Yoshida-Shaul)

Akyazi, Rana, Soysal, Mete & Altunç, Yunus Emre, 2022, Species complexes of leaf-inhabiting mites on Prunus laurocerasus L. (Rosaceae) trees in Ordu, Turkey, Acarological Studies 4 (1), pp. 9-20 : 12

Paraseiulus triporus (Chant and Yoshida-Shaul)

Material examined: 1♀ (Gülyalı, 19.08.2015), 1♀ (Altınordu, 21.07.2015) .

Comments: Paraseiulus triporus was reported from almost thirty countries ( Demite et al., 2017). In Turkey, this predatory species was firstly reported on quince, apple and cranberry by Çobanoğlu (2004). So far, many researchers found it on the different plants from different regions of Turkey ( Kasap and Çobanoğlu, 2007; Yeşilayer and Çobanoğlu, 2011; Özsisli and Çobanoğlu, 2011; Özsayın, 2012; Erdoğan, 2013; Kasap et al., 2013; Satar et al., 2013; GenÇer- GökÇe, 2015; Akyazı et al., 2017; İnak and Çobanoğlu, 2018; Akyol, 2019; AltunÇ and Akyazı, 2019; Keskin, 2019). McMurtry et al. (2013) classified Paraseiulus spp. as Subtype I-c- specialized predators of tydeids.