Phthiracarus (Phthiracarus) ferrugineus (C.L. Koch, 1841 )

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 : 258

Phthiracarus (Phthiracarus) ferrugineus (C.L. Koch, 1841) *

Material – New record for Turkey. One specimen in Trabzon, N 40° 58′ 24.75′′, E 39° 30′ 25.55′′, alt. = 348 m, Yeşiltepe Forest Area , Akçabat. 06 June 2018, trunk of P. abies .

Global distribution – Holarctic.

Ecology – Forest soils.

Note – The species is known to be generally associated with forest soils ( Weigmann 2006), however, is recorded for arboricolar habitats as well. It was found abundantly on twigs and leaves of Rhododendron ponticum L. ( Murvanidze and Arabuli 2015).