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Abstract
An adult female of the new caligonellid mite Neognathus ozkani sp. nov. and a protonymph of Molothrognathus terrulentus Meyer & Ueckermann, Citation1989 are described and illustrated. Two caligonellid species, M. terrulentus Meyer & Ueckermann, Citation1989 and Molothrognathus phytocolus Meyer & Ueckermann, Citation1989 are new records for the Turkish fauna.
Acknowledgements
This study was a part of the PhD thesis of M. Akyol, completed in 2007 and supervised by K. Koç. We thank Dr. E. Ueckermann (ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, South Africa) for his review of the manuscript.