Eremaeidae Oudemans, 1900

Bolger, Thomas, 2017, Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) recorded from Ireland: Catalogue, historical records, species habitats and geographical distribution, combinations, variations and synonyms, Zootaxa 4328 (1), pp. 1-174 : 68-69

Family Eremaeidae Oudemans, 1900

Eueremaeus Mihelčič, 1963

· Eueremaeus oblongus (C.L. Koch, 1835) *

· Original name: Eremaeus oblongus C.L. Koch, 1835 .

· In: Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden, Vol. 3 (24).

· Historical combinations/variations: Notaspis oblonga (C.L. Koch) Michael, 1888 .

· Synonyms: Eremaeus major Mihelčič, 1953 [?]; Eremaeus granulatus Mihelčič, 1955 ; (?) Eremaeus intermedius Mihelčič, 1955 ; Eremaeus figuratus Winkler, 1956 ; Eremaeus ornatus Mihelčič, 1957 ; Eremaeus silvestris Forsslund, 1957 ; Eremaeus areolatus Kunst, 1959 ; Euremaeus silvestris (Forsslund) Mihelčič, 1963 ; (?) Euremaeus kuehnelti, Mihelčič, 1963; Eueremaeus granulatus Pérez-Ínigo, 1970 .

Irish Reference/s and Habitat/s: Moss in woodland and in fallen pine trees ( Halbert 1915); apple orchard (MacQuillan 1966); fungal sporocarps ( O’Connell 1994); Machair foredunes and fixed (stable) dunes and Machair grassland (Arroyo and Bolger 2011); soil and moss in canopy in ash, oak, Scots pine and Sitka spruce forests, moss on soil in ash, oak and Sitka spruce forests and canopy in Scots pine forests ( Arroyo et al. 2012, 2013b); moss on soil, moss in canopy and moss on trunk in yew and oak forests, canopy in yew forest ( Arroyo et al. 2013c); ant nests and agricultural grassland ( Arroyo et al. 2015); canopy in ash, oak and Sitka spruce forests (unpublished data).

Counties: Armagh, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Mayo, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary and Wicklow.

Tricheremaeus Berlese, 1908

· Tricheremaeus serratus (Michael, 1885)

· Original name: Notaspis serratus Michael, 1885 .

· In: Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, (2) 5.

· Historical combinations/variations: Eremaeus serratus (Michael) Michael, 1885 ; Notaspis serrata (Michael) Ewing, 1917 .

Irish Reference/s and Habitat/s: Moss in canopy and canopy in oak forests ( Arroyo et al. 2012, 2013b). Counties: Clare and Laois.