How to identify the species and can I get key characters to identify this species?
Dear Metin,
You might need a better slide-mount to identify this mite to species. To me, it has the look of a stigmaeid rather than a cheyletid, as Denis has suggested. Stigmaeids are usually predators found roaming on plants, but some species seem to have a more than incidental relationship with sandflies - perhaps even parasitic. See, for example:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684503/
A close-up of the gnathosoma, including the palp tibia and tarsus, would resolve the family classification without much trouble. Genus and species classification would require further details and expert help. Turkey happens to have a world-expert on the family Stigmaeidae in Prof. Salih Dogan, and he would be worth contacting if you wish to know more about it, should it turn out to be a stigmaeid (or any other mite for that matter)..
Kind regards, Owen.
It seems to be one of the Cheyletidae family. These mites are not insect parasites, but often found phoretic.
Dear Metin,
You might need a better slide-mount to identify this mite to species. To me, it has the look of a stigmaeid rather than a cheyletid, as Denis has suggested. Stigmaeids are usually predators found roaming on plants, but some species seem to have a more than incidental relationship with sandflies - perhaps even parasitic. See, for example:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684503/
A close-up of the gnathosoma, including the palp tibia and tarsus, would resolve the family classification without much trouble. Genus and species classification would require further details and expert help. Turkey happens to have a world-expert on the family Stigmaeidae in Prof. Salih Dogan, and he would be worth contacting if you wish to know more about it, should it turn out to be a stigmaeid (or any other mite for that matter)..
Kind regards, Owen.
Dear Metin,
IN MSc thesis I studied LABORATORY REARING OF PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI
SCOPOLI (DIPTERA : PSYCHODIDAE) AND PROBLEMS IN IRAN and I have mite in my rearing pots that mites were detected from order Mesostigmata, super cohort (Monogynaspida) .
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