Know your campus: salient research potential of prostigmatic soil mite fauna (Acariformes: Prostigmata, Endeostigmata) within university campus area

The study provides the list of soil mites from suborder Prostigmata in selected habitats of Morasko Campus of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Representatives of 21 families belonging to 58 genera and 139 species were found in 20 collected samples. One family, 11 genera and 26 species are new to the fauna of Poland and two species new to the fauna of Europe.

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The study provides a list of soil mites from suborder Prostigmata in selected habitats of Morasko Campus of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, with a total of 139 species found, including 26 that are new to Poland and two new to Europe.