Sultan Çobanoğlu - Department of Plant Protection, Ankara University, ۰۶۱۱۰ Dışkapı, Ankara, Türkiye.
Masoud Hakimitabar - Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.
Elnaz Fadaei - Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Fethi Turgut - Health Program, Department of Medical Services and Techniques, Vocational School of Health Services, Sinop, Türkiye.
Cihan Cılbırcıoğlu - Organic Agriculture Department, Vocational School, University of Kastamonu, Taşköprü, Türkiye.

During a faunistic survey on mites in Kastamonu and Sinop provinces near Black Sea of Türkiye during the years ۲۰۱۳–۲۰۱۷, some larval specimens of parasitengone mites were collected from soil and light traps and identified as Erythraeus (E.) ankaraicus Saboori, Çobanoğlu and Bayram ۲۰۰۴, Allothrombium clavatum Saboori, Pešić and Hakimitabar, ۲۰۱۰, Abrolophus kazimierae (Haitlinger, ۱۹۸۶), Abrolophus poljankus Haitlinger and Šundić, ۲۰۲۱, Allothrombium meridionale Berlese, ۱۹۱۰, Empitrombium makolae Sevsay and Karakurt, ۲۰۱۳, Leptus (Leptus) slivovi Beron, ۱۹۷۵ and Calyptostoma velutinum (Müller, ۱۷۷۶). In this study, Leptus (Leptus) slivovi Beron, ۱۹۷۵, Abrolophus poljankus Haitlinger and Šundić, ۲۰۲۱ and Abrolophus balkanicus Haitlinger and Šundić, ۲۰۱۵ are new records to the mite fauna of Türkiye. Also, the identification key to known species of Abrolophus of the world without a comb-like seta on the palpal tarsus is updated.

taxonomy, Trombidiformes, Türkiye, Abrolophus, Leptus (Leptus) slivovi, first reports, distribution