An annotated checklist of oribatid mite taxa from three caves of Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve (Southern Vietnam) is provided. We recorded 33 species, 29 genera and 16 families, of which 10 species, five genera and two families were found in Vietnam for the first time. Three species, Malaconothrus variosetosus, Discoppia cylindrica and Machuella lineata, are for the first time recorded from the Or...

Ecological aspects of the intertidal fortuyniid oribatid mites Alismobates inexpectatus and Fortuynia atlantica and the selenoribatid Carinozetes bermudensis and Carinozetes trifoveatus were studied in the Bermuda islands. All species are stenotopic inhabitants of the marine littoral zone. Fortuynia atlantica and C. trifoveatus dwell predominantly in the lower eulittoral zone of rocky shores, A...

The type species of the genus Lepidozetes singularis Berlese, 1910, is redescribed, using fresh material from Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Mounted specimens from museums were compared: microscope slides of the type series of Berlese (deposited in Florence) and of the Willmann-collection (deposited in Munich). The controversial question of the validity of Lepidozetes conjunctus Schweizer, 192...