Dorycranosus ovatus Djaparidze, 1973

Murvanidze, Maka & Mumladze, Levan, 2016, Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites, Zootaxa 4089 (1), pp. 1-81 : 36

Dorycranosus ovatus Djaparidze, 1973

Distribution in Georgia. E: Tskneti (Djaparidze 1973)

Global distribution. Caucasus

Ecology. Forest soil

Remark. The species is regarded as junior synonym to D. moraviacus (Willmann, 1954) by Krivolutsky (1975), but in Weigmann (2006) D. moraviacus is listed as junior synonym of D. acutus (Pschorn-Walcher, 1951) . After examination of holotype, Mahunka (1979) stated D. ovatus as a valid species. Subías (2010) created the nomen novum Liacarus (Dorycranosus) djaparidzae for this Caucasic species because of homonymy with Liacarus ovatus Mihelčič, 1954 after transposition to Dorycranosus . The species is mentioned under the same name in the Catalogue (Subías & Shtanchaeva 2010). Since we support the genus Dorycranosus Wooley, 1969 , we stay with the original species name, Dorycranosus ovatus .