Oribatula (Oribatula)

Oribatula tibialis, copyright R. Penttinen.

Belongs within: Oribatulidae.

The type subgenus of the genus Oribatula is a cosmopolitan group of oribatid mites, generally distinguished from members of the subgenus Zygoribatula by the absence of a translamella on the prodorsum (Lee 1992).

Characters (from Lee 1992): Twelve to fourteen pairs of short, smooth or weakly ciliate hysteronotal setae. Humeral setae (Z1, S1) similar in size and shape to other hysteronotal setae (rarely Z1 stouter, but still subequal in length). Proteronotum without translamella, lamella at least lamellate anteriorly (never just costate or lineate), in subparallel pair, medium size or long, distance between lamellar seta z1 and dorsosejugal furrow greater than 1.5× distance between interlamellar seta j2 and bothridium of sensory seta z2. Genital shield with four pairs of setae.

<==Oribatula Berlese 1896 (Oribatula) [incl. Ceroribatula Lee & Birchby 1989] S04
    |--*O. (O.) tibialis (Nicolet 1855) [=Notaspis tibialis] S04
    |    |--O. t. tibialis (Nicolet 1855) (see below for synonymy) S04
    |    |--O. t. allifera Subías 2000 (see below for synonymy) S04
    |    `--O. t. azerbeidjanica Kulijev 1962 S04
    |--O. (O.) alpina Schweizer 1956 S04
    |--O. (O.) angustolamellata Jordansky 1991 S04
    |--O. (O.) arboricola Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp 1999 S04
    |--O. (O.) beccus Djaparidze 1990 S04
    |--O. (O.) bizygata (Lee & Birchby 1991) [=Ceroribatula bizygata] S04
    |--O. (O.) commutata Jordansky 1991 S04
    |--O. (O.) divida Mahunka 1987 S04
    |--O. (O.) elegantissima Balogh & Mahunka 1965 S04
    |--O. (O.) exsudans Travé 1961 S04
    |--O. (O.) fraenzlei Balogh & Mahunka 1968 S04
    |--O. (O.) incerta Pérez-Íñigo & Peña 1996 S04
    |--O. (O.) incompleta Mahunka 1987 S04
    |--O. (O.) incrustata (Lee & Birchby 1991) D04 [=*Ceroribatula incrustata LB91]
    |--O. (O.) intermedia Mihelčič 1969 S04
    |--O. (O.) interrupta (Willmann 1939) [=Zygoribatula interrupta] S04
    |    |--O. i. interrupta [incl. Zygoribatula bulanovae Kulijev 1961] S04
    |    `--O. i. saxicola (Kunst 1959) S04 (see below for synonymy)
    |--O. (O.) latirostris Willmann 1951 S04
    |--O. (O.) longilamellata Schweizer 1956 S04
    |--O. (O.) macrostega Iturrondobeitia 1985 (see below for synonymy) S04
    |--O. (O.) megaforamina (Lee & Birchby 1991) [=Ceroribatula megaforamina] S04
    |--O. (O.) mesosetosa (Lee & Birchby 1991) [=Fovoribatula mesosetosa] S04
    |--O. (O.) monozygata (Lee & Birchby 1991) [=Ceroribatula monozygata] S04
    |--O. (O.) nativa Tseng 1984 S04
    |--O. (O.) nayoroensis Fujita & Fujikawa 1987 S04
    |--O. (O.) neonominata Subías 2004 [=O. dentata Mihelčič 1969 non Zygoribatula dentata Balogh 1958] S04
    |--O. (O.) pannonica Willmann 1949 [incl. O. tenella longipilus Mihelčič 1966, O. tenella Mihelčič 1956] S04
    |--O. (O.) parisi Travé 1961 S04
    |--O. (O.) pisacensis Hammer 1961 S04
    |--O. (O.) praeoccupata Subías 2004 (see below for synonymy) S04
    |--O. (O.) prominens (Bayartogtokh & Aoki 1998) [=Eporibatula prominens] S04
    |--O. (O.) quadrisetosa Hammer 1961 S04
    |--O. (O.) repetita Subías 2004 [=O. lineata Bayartogtokh & Aoki 1997 non Zygoribatula lineata Hammer 1979] S04
    |--O. (O.) robusta Iordansky 1991 S04
    |--O. (O.) rotundata Thor 1937 (n. d.) S04
    |--O. (O.) runcinata Lee 1992 S04
    |--O. (O.) sakamorii Aoki 1970 S04
    |--O. (O.) salijanica Kulijev 1962 S04
    |--O. (O.) sitnikovae Iordansky 1991 S04
    |--O. (O.) torrijosi Subías, Ruiz & Kahwash 1990 S04
    |--O. (O.) transitans (Berlese 1916) [=Zygoribatula transitans] S04
    |--O. (O.) translineata (Mahunka 1985) [=Zygoribatula translineata] S04
    |--O. (O.) trirostrata (Lee & Birchby 1991) [=Ceroribatula trirostrata] S04
    |--O. (O.) unica Golosova & Karppinen 1985 S04
    |--O. (O.) ‘variabilis’ (Bayartogtokh & Aoki 2000) non Berlese 1908 [=Eporibatula variabilis] S04
    |--O. (O.) variaporosa Iordansky 1991 S04
    `--O. (O.) vera (Bulanova-Zachvatkina 1967) [=Zygoribatula vera] S04

Oribatula (Oribatula) interrupta saxicola (Kunst 1959) S04 non O. saxicola Halbert 1920 (not preoc. if in dif. gen.) [=Zygoribatula saxicola S04; incl. O. interrupta major Mihelčič 1963 S04, Z. major M83]

Oribatula (Oribatula) macrostega Iturrondobeitia 1985 [incl. O. longilamellata Subías 1977 non Schweizer 1956, Eporibatula nodifer Mihelčič 1956 (n. d.)] S04

Oribatula (Oribatula) praeoccupata Subías 2004 [=O. dentata Grobler & Skubala 2000 nec Zygoribatula dentata Balogh 1958 nec O. dentata Mihelčič 1969] S04

Oribatula (Oribatula) tibialis allifera Subías 2000 [incl. O. caliptera Berlese 1902 (n. d.), O. tibialis alata Iordansky 1991 non O. alata Mihelčič 1956] S04

*Oribatula (Oribatula) tibialis tibialis (Nicolet 1855) [incl. O. affinis Hull 1914, O. amblyptera Berlese 1916, O. coggii Jacot 1929, O. crassipes Koch 1879, Zygoribatula incurva Mihelčič 1969, Liacarus minutus Ewing 1909, Oribatula pallida Banks 1906, O. tibialis sardoa Berlese 1916, O. venusta Berlese 1908] S04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

Lee, D. C. 1992. New species of Oribatulidae (Acarida: Cryptostigmata: Planofissurae) from South Australian soils, with a review of subfamilies and Australian records. Records of the South Australian Museum 26 (1): 37–49.

[LB91] Lee, D. C., & C. M. Birchby. 1991. Ceroribatula gen. nov., Fovoribatula gen. nov. and Fovoribatulinae sf. nov. (Acarida: Cryptostigmata: Oribatulidae) from South Australian soils. Records of the South Australian Museum 24 (2): 71–89.

[M83] Martin, N. A. 1983. Miscellaneous observations on a pasture fauna: an annotated species list. DSIR Entomology Division Report 3: 1–98.

[S04] Subías, L. S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758–2002). Graellsia 60 (número extraordinario): 3–305.