Oribatula amblyptera Berlese, 1916

Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo & Giulio, Andrea Di, 2021, Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy), Zootaxa 5082 (6), pp. 501-540 : 528

Oribatula amblyptera Berlese, 1916

Oribatula amblyptera Mahunka 1994a, p. 35 , figs 8, 9.

Oribatula amblyptera Weigmann 2006, p. 435 , fig. 233f-h.

Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime: FRA, PRATO sparse, AND-I single record.

General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; Southwestern Palaearctic, Nearctic; Mediterranean?

Habitat preferences: xerophilous.

Remarks: Oribatula caliptera Berlese, 1902 , known from North and Central Italy, is morphologically very similar. Differences are given in Mahunka (1994a). One specimen (AND-I, body length 325 µm) from the present collection exhibits a protruding nose-like rostrum and slightly projecting pteromorphs, but the cusp and the anterior dorsosejugal margin are protruding anteriad which is characteristic for O. amblyptera .