Charletonia damavandica Karimi Iravanlou, Kamali & Talebi, 2002

Kapankaya, Alperen, Saboori, Alireza, Mayoral, Jaime & Cakmak, Ibrahim, 2023, Some terrestrial Parasitengona with new records of the genera Iberochyzeria, Leptus and Charletonia (Trombidiformes: Chyzeriidae, Erythraeidae) from Türkiye, Ecologica Montenegrina 66, pp. 105-119 : 115

Charletonia damavandica Karimi Iravanlou, Kamali & Talebi, 2002

Material studied: Two larvae from İkizdere reservoir, Aydin province, Türkiye, 37° 53' 27.8" N, 27° 45' 12.3" E, 160 m a.s.l, Alperen Kapankaya and Cihan Aslı col., on 22 July 2022, on Oedipoda sp. ( Orthoptera : Acrididae ). One larva from Faculty of Agriculture, Aydin Adnan Menderes University, 37° 45' 36.0" N, 27° 45' 14.6" E, 120 m a.s.l., on 31 August 2022, on unidentified Acrididae ( Orthoptera ). Nine larvae from Kazan reservoir, Aydin province, Türkiye, 37° 17' 34.1" N, 28° 12' 51.0" E, 480 m a.s.l., Alperen Kapankaya, Alireza Saboori, Cihan Aslı and Mesut Sayan col., six larvae on 27 August 2022 and three larvae on 1 September 2022, on Calliptamus sp. ( Orthoptera : Acrididae ). All specimens are deposited in the Acarological Collection, Acarology Laboratory, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Aydin Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Türkiye.

Remarks

Charletonia damavandica is reported for the first time from Türkiye. It was described by Karimi Iravanlou, Kamali & Talebi (2002) from Iran, and was reported for the second time from Iran by Noei & Honarmand (2020) and later was re-described by Hakimitabar et al. (2022). Metric data are given in Table 4. Our specimens extend the minimum range of SD (94 to 86), W (86 to 82), ISD (66 to 58), AP (37 to 28), PL (40 to 34), PSens (80 to 65), 3b 1 (43 to 38), cs (31 to 25), as (19 to 15).