Zercon carpathicus Sellnick

Karaca, Mehmet & Urhan, Raşit, 2016, Five new species of Zercon C. L. Koch, 1836 (Acari: Zerconidae) from northwestern Turkey, Zootaxa 4127 (1), pp. 31-59 : 34

Zercon carpathicus Sellnick

Zercon carpathicus Sellnick, 1958: 340 .

Zercon carpathicus .— Halašková, 1969: 233; Błaszak, 1974: 147; Petrova, 1977: 606; Lapina, 1988: 179; Karg, 1993: 316; Urhan, 2007a: 105.

Materials examined. 196 females, 59 males and 13 deutonymphs, soil, litter and moss samples under Turkish pine ( Pinus brutia ), oak trees ( Quercus sp.) and beech trees ( Fagus sp.), various localities in Demirköy district (Kırklareli province), between September 2013 and March 2014; 30 females, 13 males and 6 deutonymphs, soil and litter samples under oriental beech ( Fagus orientalis ), dog-rose ( Rosa canina ) and Hungarian oak ( Quercus frainetto ), various localities in Saray district (Tekirdağ province), September 2013; 24 females, 16 males and 33 deutonymphs, soil and litter samples under oak trees ( Quercus sp.) and juniper trees ( Juniperus sp.), 41°45' N, 27°10' E, 595 m, vicinity of Palamut village, Şarköy district (Tekirdağ province), March 2014.

Distribution. Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania (Mašán & Fend'a, 2004) and Turkey ( Urhan, 2007a).

Remarks. This species was recorded from Bursa province before, and we report new localities of this species from Turkey in this paper.