Scheloribates (Scheloribates) latipes (C.L. Koch, 1844)

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 : 267

Scheloribates (Scheloribates) latipes (C.L. Koch, 1844)

Material – One specimen in Çiftlik Village, Tekçam Area, Taşköprü forest, N 41° 22′ 14.15′′, E 34° 22′ 36.05′′, alt. = 1272 m, 5 September 2018, tree trunk of P. nigra ; three specimens in Karadedeoğlu Village , Taşköprü forest, N 41° 22′ 55.11′′, E 34° 24′ 03.56′′, alt. = 1204 m, 24 July 2018, tree trunk of P. nigra ; one specimen in Çiftlik Village , Tekçam Area, Taşköprü forest, N 41° 15′ 19.75′′, E 34° 14′ 06.85′′, alt. = 1329 m, 15 May 2018, tree bark and debris of P. nigra .

Previous record in Turkey – Konya ( Dik et al. 1999).

Global distribution – Semicosmopolitan.

Ecology – All types of habitats.