Epimerella smirnovi longisetosa Kulijev, 1967

Murvanidze, Maka, Cilbircioğlu, Cihan, Özdemir, Esengül & Inak, Emre, 2020, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of the Central Black Sea basin of Turkey with new records for the country, Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (3), pp. 255-277 : 261

Epimerella smirnovi longisetosa Kulijev, 1967

Material – One specimen in Tekke Dağı Natural Park , Ankara, N 40° 16′ 96.96′′, E 31° 91′ 72.68′′, alt. = 1424 m, 25 July 2018, soil .

Previous record in Turkey – Amanos mountains ( Ay and Ayyildiz 2019).

Global distribution – Mediterranean.

Ecology – Dry meadows and urban soils.

Remarks – Kulijev (1962) reported a longer size for sensilli for E. smirnovi smirnovi Kulijev, 1962 (94 µm), while in paper published in 1967, the size of sensilli is indicated as 54 µm, but no size of sensilli is indicated for E. smirnovi longisetosa . We measured sensilli for Turksih individual which equals 80 µm. For Epimerella smirnovi smirnovi found in Georgia, size of sensilli is between 75–80 µm and matches the size of Turkish specimen.