Pontarachna adriatica Morselli, 1980

Durucan, Furkan, 2021, New records of marine water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from Turkey, Persian Journal of Acarology 10 (2), pp. 145-153 : 146

Pontarachna adriatica Morselli, 1980 ( Figs. 3 c, d )

Material – 2♀♀, Antalya (Hamitbey Beach) (sand, 7 m depth), 30.07.2018 .

Female – Idiosoma 389 and 380 long, 314 and 330 wide. Genital field 70 long; postgenital sclerite bowed, 35 in length ( Fig. 3c ). Lengths of P1-P5 ( Fig. 3d ): 19, 35, 37, 39, 15. Pontarachna adriatica described by Morselli (1980) from Northern Adriatic brackish waters, Ferrara and Ravenna provinces. The species has been found among the gut contents of the Golden grey mullet Lisa aurata from Slovenia, Piran Bay at the depth of 12 m and reported from Southern Black Sea, Sinop ( Turkey) at the depth of 10 m depth ( Chatterjee et al. 2019). The morphological characteristics of the specimens from Antalya fits description given by Pešić et al. (2019).

Figures

Figure 3. Pontarachna punctulum Philippi, 1840 (a & b) – (a) Male idiosoma, ventral view, sp = spermatophora; (b) Male palp; Lateral view Pontarachna adriatica Morselli, 1980 (c & d) – (c) Female idiosoma, ventral view; (d) Female palp, lateral view. Scale bars: (a & c) = 100 µm; (b & d) = 50 µm.