First Confirmed Record of the Littoral Genus Fortuynia Hammen (Acari: Oribatida: Fortuyniidae) from Pakistan (Northern Arabian Sea)

Sadar Aslam; Tobias Pfingstl; Ghazala Siddiqui; Javier Ignacio Arbea; Syed Jamil Hassan Kazmi

doi:10.3157/021.128.0513

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Sadar Aslam,^1,* Tobias Pfingstl,² Ghazala Siddiqui,^1,3 Javier Ignacio Arbea,⁴ Syed Jamil Hassan Kazmi⁵

¹2Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
²3Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria. E-mail: dr.tobia
³4E-mail: ghazala_siddiqui@hotmail.com
⁴5C/ Ría de Solía 3, Ch. 39, 39610 El Astillero, Cantabria, Spain. E-mail: jarbeapo@gmail.com
⁵6Department of Geography, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan. E-mail: jkazmi@uok.edu.pk

^*Corresponding author E-mail: sadaraslam@gmail.com

Abstract

The intertidal oribatid mite Fortuynia longisetaPfingstl, 2015, is reported for the first time from the coast of Pakistan, extending its known northern distribution limit in the Indian Ocean. Fortuynia longiseta was detected in oyster reefs, at the intertidal zone, in the Hab River Delta, Balochistan coast in March 2018. Large densities of these mites were found on the inside surface of dead oyster shells.

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Sadar Aslam, Tobias Pfingstl, Ghazala Siddiqui, Javier Ignacio Arbea, and Syed Jamil Hassan Kazmi "First Confirmed Record of the Littoral Genus Fortuynia Hammen (Acari: Oribatida: Fortuyniidae) from Pakistan (Northern Arabian Sea)," Entomological News 128(5), 535-539, (15 October 2019). https://doi.org/10.3157/021.128.0513

Received: 24 October 2018; Accepted: 21 February 2019; Published: 15 October 2019

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