Oribatula (Z.) longisensilla (Djaparidze, 1985)

Murvanidze, Maka & Mumladze, Levan, 2016, Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites, Zootaxa 4089 (1), pp. 1-81 : 65

Oribatula (Z.) longisensilla (Djaparidze, 1985)

Syn.: Zygoribatula longisensilla Djaparidze, 1985 sensu Karppinen et al. 1987 , Murvanidze & Darejanashvili 2000

Distribution in Georgia. W: Tetnuldi mountain* E: Tbilisi, Lagodekhi Reserve (Shtanchaeva & Subías 2010)

Global distribution. Caucasus

Ecology. Arid forest soils

Remark. In the Catalogue the presence of O. (Z.) hispanica Subías & Arillo, 1998 is indicated for several locations of Georgia with registering O. (Z) longisensilla (Djaparidze, 1985) as a synonym. In the 2015 update of world checklist (Subías 2004) O. (Z.) longisensilla is regarded as “ species inquirinda ” and synonym of O. (Z) lanceolata (Grobler et al. 2004) . Grobler et al. (2004) do not discuss O. (Z) longisensilla at all, whereas we realize that the characters of O. (Z) lanceolata match exactly with the description of Djaparidze. The holotype of O. (Z) longisensilla Djaparidze, 1985 is indicated to be stored in the Museum of the Institute of Zoology of St. Petersburg, but it was not available for the time of investigation. However, we have found O. (Z) longisensilla as numerous in several locations of Tbilisi (Murvanidze et al. 2008) and other parts of Georgia. We propose O. (Z) lanceolata as a junior synonym of O. (Z) longisensilla syn. n.