Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites 

Abstract

A new updated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites is based on the critical review of existing literature data and new findings. The list includes 534 oribatid species of which 21 species are new for the country recorded from more than 390 locations. For each species information of the global and regional distribution is presented with notes on ecological characteristics. As far as necessary we provide remarks on taxonomic issues to overcome the ambiguities and inconsistencies existing in literature.

<p class="Body"><strong>Morphological ontogeny<em> </em>of <em>Eremobelba geographica </em>(Acari: Oribatida: Eremobelbidae), with comments on <em>Eremobelba </em>Berlese</strong></p>

“…Eremobelba geographica has a Holarctic or Southern Holarctic distribution (Murvanidze & Mumladze 2016; Subías 2020), respectively, and was included in the meso-hygrophilous group . This species was recorded from South and Central Europe (Bernini et al 1995;Weigmann 2002, Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp 2004, Niedbała & Olszanowski 2008, the Balkan Peninsula (Tarman 1983), Romania (Vasiliu & Ivan 1995), Caucasus (Shtanchaeva & Subías 2010;Murvanidze & Mumladze 2016) and Iran (Akrami 2015).…”

<p class="Body"><strong>Morphological ontogeny<em> </em>of <em>Lopheremaeus mirabilis </em>(Acari: Oribatida: Plateremaeidae), and comments on <em>Lopheremaeus </em>Paschoal</strong></p>

“…According to Subías (2004Subías ( , 2020, L. mirabilis has an eastern Mediterranean distribution, and this species was reported only from Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Macedonia, Romania and Georgia (Csiszár & Jeleva 1962, Tarman 1983, Ivan & Vasiliu 2000, Murvanidze & Mumladze 2016. This species inhabits alpine meadows, forests and urban soils (Murvanidze & Mumladze 2016). It was collected in Romania for the first time in 1992 in a small number (Ivan & Vasiliu 2000), but was misidentified as Lopheremaeus laminipes (Berlese 1916).…”

“…Lopheremaeus mirabilis (Csiszár 1962) was originally proposed as Plateremaeus mirabilis Csiszár, 1962 based on specimens from Bulgaria (Csiszár & Jeleva 1962), but now this species is known also from Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Romania and Georgia (Tarman 1983;Ivan & Vasiliu 2000;Murvanidze & Mumladze 2016). Paschoal (1988) revised the Plateremaeidae, and appointed it the type species of Lopheremaeus Paschoal, 1988.…”

Oribatid mite fauna (Acari) of Çat Forest, Sivas Province, Turkey

“…The specimens belonging to this species are extracted from samples taken in salt marshes and dunes, in montane and subalpine meadows (Weigmann, 2006). It is also recorded from dry meadow in Tbilisi, Georgia (Murvanidze & Mumladze, 2016). Turkish specimens were collected in litter.…”