Two New Records of Oribatid Mites (Acari) from Turkey

Abstract

In the current research, two species, Amerus polonicus Kulczynski, 1902 and Zetorchestes grandjeani Krisper, 1987 were obtained from the province of Sakarya and given some morphological descriptions. The two species are recorded for the first time from Turkey where the family Ameridae to which the former species belongs is also the first record and the latter species is the second record as the species of Zetorchestes .