We examined 35 species of ground and epiphytic lichens, including fruticose, foliose, crustose lichen, as habitats oribatid mites. Observations were carried out in the taiga forests northeast European Russia, 87 from 38 families found. The Crotoniidae, Carabodidae, Oppiidae, Suctobelbidae are most numerous lichens Oribatulidae epiphytes. Micreremidae Licneremaeidae only noted A complex characte...

The present work is a study on the post-embryonic development of oribatid mite Striatoppia milii from family Oppidae. specimens were reared under laboratory conditions at relative humidity 80±2% and temperature 27±2 °C. During time, both adult immature forms S. fed microfungus Trichoderma harzianum. total developmental duration life stages egg to was 21.4±1.5 days with five active instars: larv...