| abstract | A new species of oribatid mite Punctoribates angulatus spec.nov., cllected from mycorrhizal mushrooms in Turkey, is proposed and described on the basis of adults. Taxonomic problems concerning the type species, P. punctum (Koch, 1839) are discussed. The following new combinations are proposed: Minguezetes insignis (Berlese, 1910) comb.nov., Minguezetes longiporosus (Balogh, 1963) comb. nov., Minunthozetes perlongus (Balogh, 1959) comb.nov. Semipunctoribates zachvatkini (Shaldybina, 1969) comb. nov. and Semipunctoribates astrachanicus (Shaldybina, 1973) comb. nov. |