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The present checklist of the oribatid mites compiles all known published records of Ecuador with 479 species belonging to 232 genera and 89 families; 180 of these species were described from Ecuador. Oribatid mites were found in 15 of the 24 provinces that conform the Ecuadorian territory. In the provinces of Zamora Chinchipe, Galápagos, Loja, Cotopaxi, Pichincha and Napo, 95% of the species were recorded. 23.6% of these species are known only from Ecuador, 47.8% are distributed in Neotropical region, the remaining are Pantropical, semicosmopolitan and cosmopolitan. This high number of species makes Ecuador the country with the second largest number of species records in Latin America after Brazil.

Murvanidze, Maka, Cilbircioğlu, Cihan, Özdemir, Esengül, Inak, Emre (2020): Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of the Central Black Sea basin of Turkey with new records for the country. Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (3): 255-277, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v9i3.61909, URL: https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/ea74271c-b6cc-3222-8dc5-fe9f0a25fa45/

Akrami, Mohammad Ali, Shahedi, Alireza (2020): Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Taft county, Yazd province of Iran, with new records. Persian Journal of Acarology 9 (2): 141-160, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v9i2.58955

This checklist of the oribatid fauna of Canada and Alaska (excluding Astigmata) includes 580 identified species in 249 genera and 96 families. The known fauna of Canada includes 556 identified species in 247 genera, and that of Alaska includes 182 species in 95 genera; 39 of the 42 oribatid superfamilies are represented. We further list ~ 300 species that are currently unidentified, and possibly undescribed. In addition, we list 42 genera that are represented only by unidentified and probably undescribed species. For each species we give combinations and synonymies, specific locations in Alaska and the Provinces and Territories of Canada, habitats, and biogeography. There are 182 identified species known for Alaska, 152 for Yukon, 122 for Northwest Territories, 58 for Nunavut; 210 for British Columbia, 213 for Alberta, 15 for Saskatchewan, 84 for Manitoba, 167 for Ontario, 210 for Québec, 110 for Nova Scotia, 77 for New Brunswick, 84 for Newfoundland and 6 for Prince Edward Island. The known fauna of Canada is smaller than that of Austria, and is approximately equivalent to that of the Czech Republic. As these countries are much smaller in size than Canada and less ecologically diverse, we consider the Canadian and Alaskan fauna are at most 25% known. The paucity of these data reflects the absence of taxonomic and faunistic studies on Oribatida in State, Provinces or Territories, and especially in the Canadian and Alaskan National Park systems and the hundreds of Provincial Parks. Despite the almost 90% increase in described species since the catalogue of Marshall et al. (1987), there is a need for focussed, coordinated research on Oribatida in the natural regions throughout Canada and Alaska, and for monographs on families and genera with large numbers of undescribed species, such as Brachychthoniidae, Damaeidae, Cepheidae, Liacaridae, Oppiidae, Suctobelbidae, Hydrozetidae, Phenopelopidae, Scheloribatidae, Haplozetidae and Galumnidae.

A checklist of the oribatid mite species reported in Brazil is presented, including all published records up to 2015. A total of 576 described species in 206 genera and 83 families is presented. Information includes the names by which each species was reported in the Brazilian literature, its general known distribution and by Brazilian States, references, and remarks, when needed. As with most countries, there was a slow early accumulation of knowledge but in recent decades the pace of description has been relatively high. A graphical overview of the number of described oribatid mite species from Brazil in different decades is given. The proportion contributed by each of the major oribatid groups is generally similar to that of the overall world fauna, with a composition that reflects the South American fauna and all of the Neotropics in general. There is a relatively low percentage of primitive mites (Palaeosomata, Enarthronota) other than Lohmanniidae and Mesoplophoridae, which are quite diverse. The Brachypylina comprises about 68% of the oribatid mite fauna. In the checklist, 41% of the species are known only from Brazil, 37% from the Neotropical region, 13.5% have a wider distribution in the global tropical and subtropical regions, and 8.5% are considered cosmopolitan or semicosmopolitan species. The number of descriptions of new species since 2000 from Brazil (73 spp.) and South America (230) is high, but the oribatid mite fauna of these countries remains poorly known. Only continued studies can determine if the high number of species known only from Brazil is an indication of high endemism.

Murvanidze, Maka, Mumladze, Levan (2016): Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites. Zootaxa 4089 (1): 1-81, DOI: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4089.1.1

Akrami, Mohammad Ali (2015): An annotated checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Iran. Zootaxa 3963 (4): 451-501, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3963.4.1

Mortazavi, S., Tajmiri, P., Hajizadeh, J., I, Northern (2012): Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) associated with raspberry shrubs in Iran. Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2): 1311-1317, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5335259, {"references":["AKRAMI M.A. & A.R. SABOORI (2004): Report of thirteen species of macropyline oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), new to the fauna of Iran. - Iran Agric. Res. 23 (1): 111-117.","AKRAMI M.A., SABOORI A.R., KAMALI K. & A. KHARAZI- PAKDEL (2006): Introduction of some Ptyctimous oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida: Ptyctima) of Mazandaran province. - J. Entomol. Soc. Iran. 26 (2): 65-89. (In Farsi, with English summery).","AKRAMI M.A., SABOORI A.R., KAMALI K. & A. KHARAZI- PAKDEL (2008): Twenty six new records of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) for Iran fauna. - J. Entomol. Soc. Iran 28 (2): 1-25.","BALOGH J. & P. BALOGH (1992a): The oribatid mites genera of the world (Vol. 1). - Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, 263 pp.","BALOGH J. & P. BALOGH (1992b): The oribatid mites genera of the world (Vol. 2). - Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, 375 pp.","BALOGH J. & S. MAHUNKA (1983): Primitive oribatids of the palaearctic region. - Elsevier, New York, 372 pp.","BANKS N. (1906): New Oribatidae from the United States. - Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 58 (3): 490-500.","BAYARTOGTOKH B. & M.A. AKRAMI (2000a): Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Iran, with descriptions of two new species. - J. Acarol. Soc. Jpn 9 (2): 129-145.","BAYARTOGTOKH B. & M.A. AKRAMI (2000b): Poronotic oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida: Poronota) from Iran. - J. Acarol. Soc. Jpn 9 (2): 159-172.","BAYARTOGTOKH B. & J. AOKI (1998): New and little known species of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Mongolia. - Bull. Inst. Environ. Sci. Technol. Yokohama Natn. Univ. 24: 121-135.","BEHAN- ELLETIER V.M. (1999): Oribatid mite biodiversity in agroecosystems: role for bioindication. - Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 74: 411-423.","DENEGRI G.M. (1993): Review of oribatid mites as intermediate hosts of tapeworms of the Anoplocephalidae. - Exp. Appl. Acarol. 17: 567-580.","GHOSH A.K. & A.K. BHADURI (1979): Studies on the oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatei) of Nagaland, India. Indian J. Acarol. 3 (2): 51-57.","GROBLER L. & D.J. KOK (1993): Species of the genus Zygoribatula BERLESE, 1916 (Acari, Oribatida, Oribtulidae) from South Africa II, new and existing species. - Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein 9 (6): 200-206.","HADDAD IRANI- NEJAD K., HAJIGHANBAR H.R. & P. TALEBI CHAICHI (2003): Oribatid mites of the sugarbeet fields in Miandoab plain. - J. Agric. Sci. 14 (1): 55-67. (In Farsi).","KRANTZ G.W. (2009): A manual of acarology. - Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas, 807 pp.","LEBRUN P. & N.M. VAN STRAALEN (1995): Oribatid mites: prospects for their use in ecotoxicology. - Exp. Appl. Acarol. 19: 361-379.","MORTAZAVI LAHIJANI Sh., HAJIZADEH J., AKRAMI M.A. & M. RAFATIFARD (2010): Introduction and identification key of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida of Rasht township. Iranian j. Plant Sci. 41 (2): 195-205. (In Farsi, with English summery).","MORTAZAVI LAHIJANI Sh., HAJIZADEH J., AKRAMI M.A. & M. RAFATIFARD (2011): Introduction of thirty two species of Brachypyline oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida: Brachypyline), new records for the fauna of Guilan Province (Iran). - Linzer biol. Beitr. 43 (1): 783-792.","NIEDBALA W. (2008): Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Poland. - Fauna Poloniae. 3: 1-242.","NORTON R.A. (1990): Acarina: Oribatida. - In: DINDAL D.L. (ed.), Soil biology guide. John Wiley and Sons: 779-803.","OLIVEIRA A.R., NORTON R.A. & G.J. De MORAES (2005): Edaphic and plant inhabiting oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Cerrado and Mata. Atlantica ecosystems in the State of Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil. - Zootaxa 1049: 49-68.","RAJSKI A. (1958): Two new species of moss mites (Acari, Oribatei) from Poland. - Ann. Zool. XVII (2): 429-438.","SUBIAS L.S. (2011): Listado sistematico, sinonimico y biogeografico de los acaros oribatidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (excepto fosiles). - Originally published in Graellsia 60 (numero extraordinario): 3-305."]}