183. Oligota parva Kraatz †

(Illustrations in Williams 1979, Klimaszewski et al. 2018, 2020), Table 1

References. Kraatz 1862. Horion 1967. Moore and Legner 1975. Williams 1979. Smetana 2004. Majka et al. 2008. Klimaszewski et al. 2013 a, 2018. Webster et al. 2016. Brunke et al. 2021.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan, adventive in Canada and USA. Canada: BC, NB, ON, PE. USA: CA, FL, MA, MO, NH (NSR), NV, TX.

Collection and Habitat data. Captured were one NH male lacking habitat data and five females in old grass clippings. In Canada (NB) it was common in a pile of decaying and moldy corncobs and cornhusks near a composter in a residential area adjacent to a mixed forest; mites were abundant in the moldy corncobs and cornhusks where the specimens were collected (Webster et al. 2016). In PE adults were found under coastline drift at the upper margin of the littoral zone. Elsewhere associated with anthropogenic habitats and found in compost, on dung, in fermenting materials, in old hay and grass, and in other decomposing materials (Webster et al. 2016, Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Strafford Co.: 3 mi SE Dover, 29.IX.1986, D.S. Chandler, sift grass clippings, 5 females . Durham, 2.VIII.1954, R.L. Blickle, 1 male .