A new species of the genus Trombidium (Acari: Trombidioidea) parasitic on a spider species in Turkey

Trombidium demirsoyi sp. nov. Sevsay and Buga is described and illustrated from larvae collected as ectoparasites on Zodarion thoni Nosek, 1905 and off-host from the soil in Canakkale Province, Turkey. This is the first record of a species of the spider family Zodariidae as a host for an ectoparasitic larva of a Trombidium Fabricius species.