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New Data on the fauna of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from the polar Urals

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The fauna of oribatid mites in soils of the polar Ural mountains (the lower Malaya Paipudyna River, Labytnangi District, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, 67°06′N, 65°20′E) was studied. Samples from the upper soil layer and litter were collected along a transect running from the floodplain to the mountain lichen tundra (from 150 to 520 m a.s.l.. A total of about 10 thousand mites belonging to 82 species of 34 families were collected, and the distribution of some species in various biotopes was recorded. 46 species and 11 families (Hypochthoniidae, Euphthiracaridae, Phthiracaridae, Nanhermanniidae, Trhypochthoniidae, Cepheidae, Eremaeidae, Thyrisomidae, Micreremidae, Passalozetidae, and Scutoverticidae) are new to the fauna of the polar Urals. Together with these new taxa, the oribatid fauna of the polar Urals comprises not less than 106 species of 34 families. This fauna consists mainly of species with the wide polyzonal geographical distribution.

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Original Russian Text © E.A. Sidorchuk, 2009, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 88, No. 7, pp. 800–808.

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Sidorchuk, E.A. New Data on the fauna of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from the polar Urals. Entmol. Rev. 89, 554–563 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809050054

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