Zetorchestes micronychus (Berlese, 1883)

Murvanidze, Maka & Mumladze, Levan, 2016, Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites, Zootaxa 4089 (1), pp. 1-81 : 35

Zetorchestes micronychus (Berlese, 1883)

Syn.: Zetorchestes falzonii Coggi, 1898 sensu Murvanidze et al. 2013 , Murvanidze 2014

Distribution in Georgia. Whole country (Murvanidze et al. 2015; Shtanchaeva & Subías 2010)

Global distribution. Palaearctic

Ecology. Forest soils

Remark. Weigmann (2006) accepts name Z. falzonii Coggi, 1898 after Krisper (1984). He also indicates that middle European findings of Z. micronychus which are regarded as Z. falconii need to be proved. Subías (2004 electronic update 2015) accepted name Z. micronychus for Palaearctic region and placed Z. falzonii as a synonym. Unless the differences between these two species are identified, I prefer to use the species name, which is widely used in Caucasian literature.