INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACAROLOGY, cilt.30, sa.2, ss.123-130, 2004 (SCI-Expanded)
Four species of the genus Favognathus Luxton, 1973 (Acari: Cryptognathidae), collected in Erzurum Province, Turkey, included two new species. These are Favognathus orbiculatus (Livshitz, 1974), F. cucurbita (Berlese, 1916), F. amygdalus n. sp. and F. acaciae n. sp. Morphological characters, habitat and distribution for each species are given. A key to the species of Favognathus from Turkey is provided.