taxonID	type	description	language	source
0399FB6BB323A04D588DF9D4FD437445.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. New record for Italy (unpublished record in the Tuscan – Emilian Apennines, Jacomini pers. comm.). Habitat preferences: primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB323A04C588DF87CFCDE7394.taxon	description	Liochthonius brevis Moritz 1976 a, p. 40, figs 6 a, b. Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime: FAG single record. General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB322A04C588DFEC5FB9672BD.taxon	description	General distribution: Southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous, praticolous (hygrophilous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB322A04C588DFE1DFCF571C4.taxon	description	General distribution: Italian, Austrian Alps; Central, South, Southeast Europe. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB322A04C588DFD35FDD270EC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental, South Africa, Australia. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB322A04F588DFC4DFCDE7394.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern? Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous. Mixochthonius pilososetosus (Forsslund, 1942)	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB322A04F588DFC4DFCDE7394.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss (Ticino), Austrian Alps; Holarctic. New record for Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous. Poecilochthonius spiciger (Berlese, 1910)	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB322A04F588DFC4DFCDE7394.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental, Neotropical; Mediterranean? Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB322A04F588DFC4DFCDE7394.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; southern Palaearctic, Oriental.; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: primarily silvicolous. Sellnickochthonius immaculatus (Forsslund, 1942)	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB322A04F588DFC4DFCDE7394.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Neotropical. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB321A04F588DFABDFCDE7540.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB321A04F588DFEC5FCF57174.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Iberian Peninsula; southern Europe, North Africa; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB321A04F588DFDA5FDD27078.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Australian, Subantarctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB321A04F588DFCA1FD43777C.taxon	description	General distribution: Southern Italy; Italian, Swiss (Luzern), Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB321A04F588DFBDDFDD27784.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB321A04E588DF941FC307394.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, New Zealand. Habitat preferences: xerophilous. Hypochthonius rufulus C. L. Koch, 1835	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB321A04E588DF941FC307394.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB320A04E588DF9D4FC307468.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, Piedmont (Torino); cosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB320A04E588DFC31FDE77710.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB320A04E588DFB49FE3F76AD.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Central, South Europe, Iran; Mediterranean, rare. Habitat preferences: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB320A04E588DFB49FE3F76AD.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 350 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB320A04E588DFD51FBD17030.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; mesohygrophilous; also in deeper soil layers.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB320A04E588DFE8DFD6C7150.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: praticolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB320A041588DF8D1FDD273DC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, New Guinea. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32FA041588DFD88FBCD7055.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous; (meso) hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32FA041588DFEC4FDD27298.taxon	description	General distribution: Southern Italy; Italian, Swiss (Ticino), Austrian Alps; Central, South Europe, Iran; Mediterranean; rare. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32FA041588DFC85FCC27735.taxon	description	General distribution: Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic; Mediterranean? Habitat preferences: silvicolous; (meso) hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32FA041588DFB65FD607614.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32FA041588DFA45FCDE75F4.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32FA041588DF925FD6F74D4.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32EA040588DFD18FCF570A5.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental, Central America. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32EA040588DFAF4FDD27689.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, western Oriental, Seychelles. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32EA040588DF9B8FBCD746A.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; cosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous; (meso) hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32EA040588DFF74FDD272E5.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, South America. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32EA040588DFC14FDE477CD.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32EA040588DFE54FD6F71E9.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic, Mexico. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32EA043588DF898FC1F73B8.taxon	description	Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous, also praticolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32DA043588DF9F1FDE77468.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; southern Palaearctic, western Oriental; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32DA043588DFDA5FD357054.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; southern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32DA043588DFC85FD357734.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy, Italian, Austrian Alps; Holarctic; Mediterranean? Habitat preferences: silvicolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32DA043588DFEE1FCDE72BC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, western Oriental, Mexico, New Zealand. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32DA043588DFB2DFD0476F0.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; southern Palaearctic, western Oriental; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: xerophilous, lichenicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32DA042588DF899FDE77394.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian Alps; South Europe, North Africa, Mexico?; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32CA042588DFC31FDD27710.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32CA042588DFB49FDD27614.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian (Sondrio, Bernini pers. comm.), Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32CA042588DFA44FC0F753D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous (lichenicolous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32CA042588DF99CFD357444.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic, western Oriental. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32CA042588DFEC5FD6F7298.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32CA042588DFD89FD6F7030.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; southern Palaearctic, Mexico?; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32CA045588DF8B5FD0473DC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Europe; rare. Habitat preferences: xerophilous, lichenicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA045588DFC4DFB227758.taxon	discussion	Remark: Cepheidae Berlese, 1896, the frequently used name for this oribatid mite family is a junior homonym of Cepheidae Agassiz, 1862 (Cnidaria). A proposal to establish a replacement name for Cepheidae Berlese to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is submitted (Halliday & Norton 2019).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA045588DFB81FDD27660.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA045588DFD51FDF770ED.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, southern Austrian Alps; South Europe. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; mesohygrophilous; Mediterranean.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA045588DFD51FDF770ED.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 540 – 680 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA045588DFF3DFDD272E4.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, South Africa, New Zealand; rare. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA045588DFE55FDF771E9.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous (mesohygrophilous, lichenicolous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA045588DFE55FDF771E9.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 350 – 450 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA045588DF9B8FDE77444.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern? Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Central, South Europe; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA045588DFAD8FDD27688.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; western Palaearctic; Mediterranean? Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA044588DF87CFE3F722D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32BA044588DF87CFE3F722D.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 910 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32AA044588DFE54FDE370ED.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Central, South Europe, southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: primarily praticolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32AA044588DFE54FDE370ED.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body length 650 – 690 µm. The morphological characters of the examined specimens correspond to the redescription of Weigmann & Schwalbe (1994). A difference is the smaller body length (Weigmann & Schwalbe 1994: 730 – 780 µm; Pérez-Íñigo 1997: 725 – 850 µm; Weigmann 2006: 725 – 850 µm). The known body length covers a wide range of sizes, the specimens from the Maritime Alps are only slightly smaller and are considered to be conspecific.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32AA044588DFC14FDD277A9.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; western Palaearctic, Mexico? Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32AA044588DFAD8FD6F7565.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32AA044588DF99CFDF7741D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic, Holarctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32AA044588DF99CFDF7741D.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 250 – 300 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB32AA047588DF87CFDE77394.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB329A047588DFD6CFD6F70EC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian Alps (Sondrio, Bernini pers. comm.), southern France; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB329A047588DFC4CFB337660.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB329A047588DFC4CFB337660.taxon	discussion	Remarks: A morphological differentiation between E. oblongus and E. valkanovi (Kunst, 1957) is given by Weigmann (2006), but in the present material the different characters are not always clearly distinguishable. The specimens show a high variability and a mosaic pattern of characters in-between the species. A synonymy of E. valkanovi is suspected by Subías (2004, electronic update 2021) and Seniczak et al. (2014).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB329A047588DFE8DFDD27174.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian Alps; southern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB329A047588DFA61FC8C7518.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; southern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous, lichenicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB329A047588DF941FD6F7420.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB329A046588DF821FD70722D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB328A046588DFE54FCDE71E9.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB328A046588DF908FDE474D5.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental. Habitat preferences: euryoecious.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB328A046588DFD50FC1F70ED.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Holarctic, western Oriental. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous, also praticolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB328A046588DFC4CFDD27735.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB328A046588DFB64FE3F7639.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Central Europe, Caucasus. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB328A046588DFB64FE3F7639.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 840 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB328A046588DFA60FC6C7519.taxon	discussion	Xenillus tegeocranus Schatz 2004, fig. III 3.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB328A046588DFA60FC6C7519.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Palaearctic, Oriental; Mediterranean? Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous, xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A059588DFF3DFD3572E4.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A059588DFE55FCDE710C.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Mexico. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A059588DFD6DFDF77031.taxon	description	General distribution: Southern Italy (Eolian Islands, Tuscany); Mediterranean. Only known from Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A059588DFD6DFDF77031.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 410 – 420 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A059588DFC69FDD27758.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A059588DFB81FDF77639.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Ligurian Apennines, Prov. Imola (Bernini 1976), southern France (Provence, Corsica); South Europe, North Africa; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A059588DFB81FDF77639.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 340 – 370 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A059588DFA61FDD27540.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; western Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A059588DF9B9FDD27468.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB337A058588DF898FD6F7394.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian (Sondrio, Bernini pers. comm.), Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB336A058588DFD19FCDE70A4.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, Northwest Italy (Subías & Arillo 2001); Palaearctic; Oriental, Madagascar. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB336A058588DFC15FE3F7785.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; western Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB336A058588DFC15FE3F7785.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 210 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB336A058588DFAF5FDD276AC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB336A058588DFEC5FCBD71E9.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB336A058588DFEC5FCBD71E9.taxon	discussion	Remark: The nomenclatorical problems of a potential synonymy of C. dalecarlica and C. willmanni Dyrdowska, 1929 are discussed in Weigmann (2006). According to Mahunka (2006) both species differ in morphological characters, especially in length and shape of the bothridial seta.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB336A058588DFA0DFCDE75D0.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Holarctic, Ethiopian. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB336A05B588DF908FDF773DD.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian Alps (Sondrio, Bernini pers. comm.); Italy, western Europe (Subías 2004); Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: praticolous?, also in deeper soil layers.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB336A05B588DF908FDF773DD.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 260 – 270 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DFF3CFE3F72C1.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps, southern France; cosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DFF3CFE3F72C1.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 215 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DFE38FD6F71A1.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss (UR, Schatz unpubl.), Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DFD18FD6B70A5.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous?	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DFC14FDE477CD.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DFB2CFD357615.taxon	description	Habitat preferences: silvicolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DFA44FE3F7519.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DFA44FE3F7519.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 310 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DF940FDF774B1.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss Alps (Grisons, southern Ticino); Central South Europe, Caucasus. New record for Italy, unpublished records in the Eastern Italian Alps (provinces of Belluno, Bolzano, Trento, F. Bernini pers. comm.) Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB335A05B588DF940FDF774B1.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 400 – 450 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB334A05A588DFF74FDE4722D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; cosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB334A05A588DFD6CFDD27031.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Central South Europe. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB334A05A588DFE8CFDF7710D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, New Zealand, Hawaii. Habitat preferences: euryoecious.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB334A05A588DFE8CFDF7710D.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 295 – 340 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB334A05A588DFC68FECF77AA.taxon	description	General distribution: Northwest Italy (Subías & Arillo 2001), Iberian Peninsula, Southeast Europe, Caucasus; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB334A05A588DFC68FECF77AA.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body length 240 – 270 µm. This species is frequently cited as Medioppia vera. The generic name Medioppia Subías & Minguez, 1985 is considered as synonym of Oppiella (Rhinoppia) according to Weigmann (2006).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB334A05A588DF9B8FDF774D5.taxon	description	Habitat preferences: silvicolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB334A05A588DF9B8FDF774D5.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 290 – 340 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB333A05D588DFA45FDF775F5.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB333A05D588DFA45FDF775F5.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 425 – 475 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB333A05D588DFB81FBC5765D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Western Palaearctic, Canada, Hawaii. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous (mesohygrophilous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB333A05D588DFF3DFED07298.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Central, South, West Europe, Oriental, North America; Mediterranean? Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB333A05D588DFF3DFED07298.taxon	discussion	Remark: Surprisingly, only a few specimens of this otherwise very abundant species were found in the collected samples.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB333A05D588DFDC1FE2D7081.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian Alps (TN, Schatz unpubl.), southern France; Central, South, Southwest Europe; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB333A05D588DFDC1FE2D7081.taxon	discussion	Remark: Some specimens from sites AB and PAL have comparatively longer notogastral setae (especially setae h 2, h 3 up to 22 µm, some are distally slightly flagelliform) which reminds Quadroppia longisetosa Minguez, Ruiz & Subías, 1985. Other morphological differences between Qu. maritalis and Qu. longisetosa (translamella broader, head of bothridial seta almost smooth in Qu. maritalis, Lions 1982) confirm the assignment of these specimens to Qu. maritalis.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB333A05D588DF925FDD2741C.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern? Italy; Italian Alps; western Palaearctic; rare. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB333A05C588DF87DFCC27395.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; (meso) hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB332A05C588DFEC5FDD272BC.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss, Austrian Alps; Central Europe, Caucasus. New record for Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB332A05C588DFE1DFD4B719C.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss Alps (Ticino); Mediterranean? New record for Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous?	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB332A05C588DFE1DFD4B719C.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body length 200 µm. Up to now this species was only recorded in southern Ticino (Rancate, chestnut forest, Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp 2001).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB332A05C588DFCFDFCBA70A4.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss (Ticino), Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. New record for Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous; mesohygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB332A05C588DFC15FDD277CC.taxon	description	General distribution: Southern? Italy; Italian, Swiss (Ticino), Austrian Alps; Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB332A05C588DFB2DFD6F7614.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss, Austrian Alps; Central, Southeast Europe. New record for Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB332A05C588DFA45FCDE7518.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Palaearctic, Greenland. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB332A05C588DF941FBC57421.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, South America. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous (mesohygrophilous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB332A05F588DF899FDD273B8.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB331A05F588DFEE1FDD272BC.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss, Austrian Alps; western Palaearctic. New record for Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB331A05F588DFE1DFDD271A0.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss (Ticino), Austrian Alps; Holarctic. New record for Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB331A05F588DFD19FCC270C9.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss, Italian, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic; New Zealand. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; (meso) hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB331A05F588DFC31FB4B7711.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous, praticolous (mesohygrophilous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB331A05F588DFB49FE9C75D0.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian Alps; Central, South, Southwest Europe, southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB331A05F588DFB49FE9C75D0.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body length 210 – 220 µm. The examined specimens correspond largely to the original description (Mahunka 1966). The cilia on the notogastral setae, a charactistic morphological feature of the species, are difficult to recognize in some specimens, but on most setae visible as thin setulae. Subías (2004) synonymised S. diffissa Moritz, 1973 with S. italica based on similar bothridial seta, lateral rostral dentation and ciliate notogastral setae. But Suctobelbella italica has a nasiform rostral apex, broad apical lobes underneath, also the lateral anterior notogastral tooth is pointed, the inner tooth rounded (as in the specimens from the Alpi Marittime), whereas S. diffissa has distinct bifurcate apical lobes and almost equal anterior notogastral teeth (Moritz 1973).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB331A05F588DF909FBC574D5.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Palaearctic, western Oriental, New Zealand. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous (mesohygrophilous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB330A05E588DFE8CFE3F7151.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB330A05E588DFE8CFE3F7151.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 240 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB330A05E588DFD88FCDE70ED.taxon	discussion	Suctobelba subcornigera Moritz 1964, figs 2, 3 b.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB330A05E588DFD88FCDE70ED.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Holarctic, Oriental, New Zealand. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB330A05E588DFC4CFCDE7735.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental, Neotropical. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB330A05E588DFA28FEA27445.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB330A05E588DFA28FEA27445.taxon	discussion	Remark: The taxonomic rank of the parthenogenetic Tectocepheus species is debatable. Weigmann (2006), Subías (2004) and other authors list T. sarekensis as subspecies of T. velatus (Michael, 1880); Laumann et al. (2007) indicate a speciation by using molecular phylogeny and consider T. sarekensis a distinct species, which we follow here.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB330A051588DF8B4FDE473B8.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; cosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33FA051588DFC31FD6F7710.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33FA051588DFB49FDD27638.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, western Oriental. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33FA051588DFA61FCDE7540.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, French, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33FA051588DF9B9FDD27468.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic, Ethiopian. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33FA051588DFEA8FEF57030.taxon	description	General distribution: Austrian Alps; Central, South, South-East Europe; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. New record for Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33FA051588DFEA8FEF57030.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body length 180 – 200 µm. A comparison with material from the “ Hundsheimer Berge ” (Lower Austria, near the site of the original description, Schatz & Fischer 2007) exhibits the species identity of the specimens from Cuneo. Licneremaeus giustii Bernini, 1973, known from the Eolian Islands, southern Italy, is morphologically very similar, especially in the pattern of the notogastral areolae. Morphological differences between L. prodigiosus and L. giustii are given in the posterior arrangement of these areolae, also in the number of notogastral setae (12 pairs in L. prodigiosus, 13 pairs in L. giustii), and in the length of the adanal setae (very short in L. prodigiosus, longer in L. giustii) (Bernini 1973). The specimens from Cuneo correspond in all mentioned features to L. prodigiosus, although the notogastral areolae are weakly expressed in the present specimens.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33FA050588DF8D1FCC37271.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic, western Oriental. Habitat preferences: primarily praticolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33FA050588DF8D1FCC37271.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body length 420 – 440 µm. Length of anterior notogaster setae 25 – 30 µm. The length of notogaster setae can vary (Weigmann et al. 2015), they are longer in the present studied specimens than in the the keys and figures of Pérez-Íñigo (1993) and Weigmann (2006).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA050588DFE71FC63710C.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, western Oriental, Ethiopian. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous, praticolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA050588DFD6DFDD27054.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA050588DFC85FE3F7735.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy, Italian Alps (Trentino, Castagnoli & Pegazzano 1985); Mediterranean. Only known from Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA050588DFC85FE3F7735.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 450 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA050588DFB65FC2F76F1.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alpe, southern France; Holarctic, Central America. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous; hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA050588DFB65FC2F76F1.taxon	discussion	Remark: See comment in Bernini et al. (1995) regarding the species name.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA050588DFA29FE3F75D1.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; western Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: xerophilous, lichenophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA050588DFA29FE3F75D1.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 790 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA053588DF8D1FF397209.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean? Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33EA053588DF8D1FF397209.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body length 250 – 270 µm. Several specimens from the present collection remind O. oglasae Bernini, 1975 in its shape of the anterior lamella (large lateral tooth on cuspis, short and round incision between cusps, Bernini 1975), but the interlamellar setae are short which is characteristic for O. tectus, in contrast to long interlamellar setae in O. oglasae (and O. corsicanus Bernini & Avanzati, 1983) confirming the assignment to O. tectus.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33DA053588DF9D5FDE77468.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; southern Palaearctic, Oriental, Mexico; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33DA053588DFE71FD7071E8.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, Piedmont (Torino), southern France; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33DA053588DFD51FDD270EC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Central, South, Southeast Europe, Caucasus; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33DA053588DFC4DFE3F77A9.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps, Piedmont (Torino); Central, South, Southeast Europe; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous?	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33DA053588DFC4DFE3F77A9.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 320 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33DA053588DFB11FCF576AC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, Piedmont (Torino); Holarctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33DA053588DF8D1FC6374B0.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous, praticolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33CA052588DF908FD9774B1.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: xerophilous, lichenicolous. All stages of this species mine in lichens and are rarely found outside of lichens (Grandjean 1951).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33CA052588DFF3DFAC7710D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Southwestern Palaearctic, Nearctic; Mediterranean? Habitat preferences: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33CA052588DFF3DFAC7710D.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Oribatula caliptera Berlese, 1902, known from North and Central Italy, is morphologically very similar. Differences are given in Mahunka (1994 a). One specimen (AND-I, body length 325 µm) from the present collection exhibits a protruding nose-like rostrum and slightly projecting pteromorphs, but the cusp and the anterior dorsosejugal margin are protruding anteriad which is characteristic for O. amblyptera.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33CA052588DFD6DFDE370C9.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss (Grisons, type locality), Austrian Alps; Central, Southeast Europe. Habitat preferences: praticolous, mainly in montane to alpine habitats.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33CA052588DFD6DFDE370C9.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body size 320 x 175 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33CA052588DFC31FC7A77CC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France; Holarctic, western Oriental, Neotropical. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous; lichenicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33CA052588DFB2DFDF776F1.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; southern Palaearctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33CA052588DFB2DFDF776F1.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body length 380 – 400 µm.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33CA052588DFA29FD6F7518.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy, Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33BA055588DFF74FB7C70ED.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern? Italy; Italian Alps (Bergamo type locality); possible distribution in Monte Pollino Massif, Basilicata, Calabria (Hemileius cf. scrobina, Bernini et al. 1987). Habitat preferences: unknown, found in moss (type locality, Berlese 1916, Hemileius cf. scrobina, Monte Pollino, Bernini et al. 1987); silvicolous (Alpi Marittime).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33BA055588DFF74FB7C70ED.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body length 490 – 570 µm. Notogaster pustulate, notogastral setae thin, short (~ 20 – 25 µm), difficult to detect (“ Pili in dorso et ad margines notogastri nulli, certe etiam maximarum amplificationum ope non conspicui ” Berlese 1916), Mahunka (1994 a) drew short, well visible notogastral setae (“ Ten pairs of equally long, fine notogastral setae and four pairs of small sacculi present ”). Apart from size, the studied specimens from the Maritime Alps lack morphological differences to the species descriptions (Berlese 1916, Mahunka 1994 a) and are considered to be conspecific. A minor difference is the body size. Berlese (1916) indicated a body size of 480 x 320 µm. Most specimens from the Maritime Alps are larger [length of males (n = 5) 470 – 520 µm, females (n = 8) 520 – 570 µm]; apparently Berlese studied a smaller male. Subías (2004) listed the species as Hemileius (Tuberemaeus) scrobinus without further discussion. He apparently based this hypothesis on the similar shape of the body surface of Tuberemaerus singularis Sellnick, 1930. But the surface of the latter species has foveolae, whereas the notogaster of H. scrobina is pustulate. Moreover, the generic diagnosis of Tuberemaeus Sellnick, 1930 stresses the presence of two humps on the posterior notogaster (Sellnick 1930) which are not present in H. scrobina (Mahunka 1994). Therefore, we reject this assignment.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33BA055588DFC4CFD6C77CD.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Oriental (Vietnam); Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: praticolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33BA055588DFB2CFBC576F2.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, southern France (Corsica); semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous (mesohygrophilous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33BA055588DFA28FC6375F5.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps, Piedmont (Torino), southern France; Holarctic, Oriental (Vietnam). Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous, praticolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33AA054588DFE1CFCDE71A1.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; cosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33AA054588DFC30FCF577CD.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Holarctic; Mediterranean. Habitat preferences: silvicolous, praticolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33AA054588DFB2CFC3B76AD.taxon	description	General distribution: Swiss Alps (southern Ticino); Mediterranean? New record for Italy. Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33AA054588DFB2CFC3B76AD.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body size 320 x 180 µm. The smaller body, the deep U-shaped rostral incision and the long, dense cilia on the bothridial seta distinguish this species clearly from C. minutissimus.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33AA054588DFA0CFBC275F6.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy Italian, Swiss (UR Schatz unpubl.), Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily praticolous (mesohygrophilous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB33AA054588DF924FCCF74FA.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss (UR Schatz unpubl.), Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: praticolous; (meso) hygrophilous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB339A057588DFF3DFDD272E4.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss (UR Schatz unpubl.), Austrian Alps; Palaearctic, Greenland. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB339A057588DFE55FB507078.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB339A057588DFE55FB507078.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Body size 340 x 225 µm. A synonymy with Ch. pusillus was proposed by Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp (1995), an action that several authors followed subsequently. Seniczak et al. (2019) rejected this synonymy based on morphological characters, mitochondrial gene COI sequence data and morphological ontogeny which indicate clearly that Ch. borealis is different from Ch. pusillus and it is a “ bona species ”.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB339A057588DFCA1FB497735.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, western Oriental, Seychelles. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB339A057588DFCA1FB497735.taxon	discussion	Remark: Body size 440 x 320 µm. The single specimen of this species differs morphologically from the similar Ch. pusillus by the smaller bothridial seta and the scutiform mentum (Weigmann 2006).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB339A057588DFB65FC70765D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous (xerophilous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB339A057588DFABDFDD27564.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB339A057588DF99DFD047444.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic. Habitat preferences: xerophilous, lichenicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB339A056588DF8B5FDE473DC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: euryoecious.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB338A056588DFC85FDD2777C.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; semicosmopolitan. Habitat preferences: silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB338A056588DFBDDFCDE7784.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Palaearctic, Oriental (Vietnam). Habitat preferences: euryoecious, primarily silvicolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB338A056588DFF3DFEAF7298.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, Mexico. Habitat preferences: lichenicolous; mainly in alpine habitats.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB338A056588DFF3DFEAF7298.taxon	discussion	Remark: The single specimen is damaged, but important species-specific characters are discernible. Body length 460 µm, lamellar structure conspecific with relative long cusps, notogastral setae long and flagelliform, legs monodactylous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB338A056588DFAF5FDDF76AC.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic. Habitat preferences: praticolous.	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
0399FB6BB338A056588DFDC1FCCC719D.taxon	description	General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Holarctic, western Oriental, New Zealand. Habitat preferences: euryoecious (mesohygrophilous).	en	Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo, Giulio, Andrea Di (2021): Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy). Zootaxa 5082 (6): 501-540, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1
