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Issue: Vol. 5794 No. 1: 17 Apr. 2026
Type: Monograph
Published: 2026-04-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5794.1.1
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Oribatid mites (Arachnida: Oribatida) in Estonia: A commented checklist

Estonian University of Life Sciences; Inst of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi 5; 51006 Tartu; Estonia
Mycology and Microbiology Center; University of Tartu; Tartu; Estonia
Tallinn University; School of Natural Sciences and Health; Tallinn; Estonia
Mycology and Microbiology Center; University of Tartu; Tartu; Estonia; Department of Biological and Environmental Science; University of Jyväskylä; Jyväskylä; Finland; Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences; University of Tartu; Tartu; Estonia
Estonian University of Life Sciences; Inst of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi 5; 51006 Tartu; Estonia
Arachnida Sarcoptiformes new synonyms Baltic countries soil fauna DNA barcodes

Abstract

Although the first data on Estonian oribatid mites date back to 1859 with the work of A. E. Grube, the fauna has never been systematically revised since then. Data from all previous literature sources contain reliable records of 128 species, to which are added 172 new species records, based on 456 samples from different microhabitats from all parts of Estonia. The Estonian oribatid mite fauna has thus records of 300 species, which is a comparable number with the neighboring countries.

Three new combinations and three new synonyms are proposed: Cymbaeremaeus venosus (Grube, 1859) comb. nov. et syn. nov. = Cymbaeremaeus cymba (Nicolet, 1855), Cepheus tricuspidatus (Grube, 1859) comb. nov. et syn. nov. = Cepheus latus (C. L. Koch, 1835), Oribatella quadricuspis (Grube, 1859) comb. nov. and Kaszabobates helveticus Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 2000 = Kaszabobates olbiopolitanus Sergienko, 1980 = syn. nov.

 

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Sammet, K., Varusk, S., Vacht, P., Anslan, S. & Kurina, O. (2026) Oribatid mites (Arachnida: Oribatida) in Estonia: A commented checklist. Zootaxa, 5794 (1), 1–61. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5794.1.1