Litarachna communis Walter, 1925

Chatterjee, Tapas & Durucan, Furkan, 2022, A checklist of halacarid and pontarachnid mites (Acari: Halacaridae and Pontarachnidae) found in seagrass habitats, Persian Journal of Acarology 11 (2), pp. 187-223 : 204

Litarachna communis Walter, 1925

Report found in seagrass habitats – This species was reported among seagrass from Adriatic Sea ( Viets 1940); from Rovinj, Croatia (northern Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) among algae and Posidonia seagrass ( Viets 1941); from Punta Vico (Lacco Ameno of Ischia), Italy among Posidonia oceanica ( Mari and Morselli 1983, 1990); from Marmara Sea, Turkey — among Zostera marina ( Artüz and Pešić 2016) ; among P. oceanica from Spain ( Stern et al. 2019).

Remarks – This species was reported from Mediterranean Sea ( Croatia, France, Italy, Montenegro, and Turkey), Black Sea ( Russia) among algae and other substrata (Chatterjee et al. 2019). Artüz and Pešić (2016) reported intersexuality in Litarachna communis from the western coast of the Sea of Marmara among Zostera marina sea grass.