Soil Mites and Collembola from AI-Qa~im Province, Saudi Arabia PDF

Keywords

Zoology, soil mites, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

A qualitative faunal analysis of soil mites and Collembola, coJlected from several biotopes at Al-Qa$im province, was carried out. Among the identified specimens, eleven species of soil mites and two collembolan ones are reported for the first time to exist in Saudi Arabia . A systematic list is submitted, which contains zoogeographical and distributional data for the species included . Mites are more abundant than Collembola both in number of species and collected specimens. Cryptostigmatid mites are by far the major faunal elements in all examined samples .