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beieri Sellnick, 1931 - is known from Greece and Crete. The second species - C. rafalskii Athias-Binche et Bloszyk, 1985 - occurs in Turkey and Iraq, and the third species - C. pawloskii Athias-Binche et Bloszyk, 1985 - lives in Turkey. The genus Polyaspinus Berlese, 1916 is known from Central and West Europe from the western part of the USA, Japan, Bolivia and Tasmania (Bloszyk & Halliday 2000, Masan & Kalúz 1999). This genus occurs in the Mediterranean part of Europe only from Spain. It was not known from the Balkan peninsula. The Albanian occurrence is the first data of the genus Polyaspinus from the Balkan peninsula. Acknowledgements - I would like to thank the Hungarian Natural History Museum for the financial support of the Albanian expedition. I am grateful to Dr Sándor Mahunka for providing working facilities, and helping with the preparation techniques and Zoltán Erőss, Dr Zoltán Fehér and Dávid Murányi for helping with the collection and I would like to thank Zsuzsanna Molnár for helping with the translation. REFERENCES Athias-Binche, F. & Bloszyk, J. (1985) Crinitodiscus beieri Sellnick and Orientidiscus n. subgen from the Eastern Mediterranean Region, with description of two new species and biogeographical remarks (Anactinolrichida: Uropodina). - Acarologia 26(4): 319-334. Bloszyk, J. & Halliday, R. B. (2000) Observations on the genus Polyaspinus Berlese, 1916 (Acari: Trachytidae). - Systematic & Applied Acarology 5: 47-64. Hirschmann, W. (1976) Adulten-Gruppen und Bestimmungstabelle von 81 Trachyuropoda-Arten (Trachyuropodini, Oplitinae). - Acarologie 22:4-15. Masan, P. & Kalúz, S. (1999) Mites of the genus Polyaspinus (Mesostigmata, Uropodina) from Skovakia with description of a new species. - Biológia, Bratislava 54(5): 529-538. Wisniewski, J. (1993) Die Uropodiden der Erde nach Zoogeographischen Regionen und Subregionen geordnet (mit Angabe der Lande). - Acarologie 40: 221-291. Wisniewski, J. & Hirschmann, W. (1993) Katalog der Ganggattungen, Untergattungen, Gruppen und Arten der Uropodiden der Erde. - Acarologie 40: 1-220. (Received: 22nd May, 2003) Author's address: Jenő KONTSCHÁN Systematic Zoology Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13. Hungary E-mail: kontscha@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu