Pantelozetes alpestris (Willmann, 1929)

Murvanidze, Maka & Mumladze, Levan, 2016, Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites, Zootaxa 4089 (1), pp. 1-81 : 51

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4089.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5478C7E2-8776-4747-9C0F-2B382DD19AD9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6062009

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8D47867A-FFD7-BD61-FF44-3BAB13D0D765

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Plazi

scientific name

Pantelozetes alpestris (Willmann, 1929)
status

 

Pantelozetes alpestris (Willmann, 1929) View in CoL

Distribution in Georgia. W: Navenakhevi, Letsurtsume, Satsurblia and Chakhati caves (Murvanidze 2014)

Global distribution. Holarctic

Ecology. Moss, cave soil and guano

Remark. According to Subías (2004, electronically updated in 2015), this species belongs to the genus Montizetes Kunst, 1971 . Weigmann (2006) discussed the diagnostic characters of Pantelozetes Grandjean, 1953 and gave strong argumentation to regard Montizetes as a junior synonym of Pantelozetes . Weigmann (2006) registered P. alpestris as a moss dwelling species in European mountain regions; we have found it abundant in twilight and dark zones of several karst caves of Georgia, on the cave floor and in bat guano.

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