Camisia horrida (Hermann, 1804)

Schatz, Heinrich, 2020, Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from the Sella massif (Dolomites, Trentino, Italy) with description of Trichoribates valeriae n. sp. (Ceratozetidae), Acarologia 60 (4), pp. 842-862 : 846

Camisia horrida (Hermann, 1804)

Colloff 1993: p. 1381, figs 30­32. Seniczak 1991a: pp. 270 ff., figs 3, 4, 6, 11, 12. Weigmann

2006: p. 153, fig. 80a.

Piz Boè — TN 164: 2 adults, 1 protonymph, 2 deutonymphs, TN 165: 3 adult specimens.

Taxonomical notes — The juvenile instars correspond to the description by Seniczak (1991a) and were allocated to the respective instars according to body size and number of genital setae (protonymph – size 470 – 360, 1 pair of genital setae, deutonymph – size 540 – 550 x 310 – 330, 4 pairs of genital setae).

General distribution — Holarctic, Oriental, Ethiopian, Neotropical (Central America).

Remarks — Schweizer (1956) reported C. horrida frequently from the alpine zone in Switzerland up to 3109 m a.s.l. and considered it as a boreo­alpine species. In South Tyrol it was already found in the Dolomites in the nearby Schlern/Sciliar massif at 2200–2560 m a.s.l. ( Schatz 2008a), and in the North­Tyrolean Central Alps ( Austria) in the alpine grassland up to 2650 m a.s.l. ( Schatz 1979). Camisia horrida was also reported from higher altitudes of Central America ( Costa Rica: Volcán Irazú, 3400 m, Volcán Chirripó, 3800 m ; Panama: Volcán Barú, 3400–3475 m a.s.l., Schatz 2006).