Steganacarus (Atropacarus) plakatisi

Steganacarus (A.) plakatisi (Mahunka, 1979) Distribution in Georgia. E: Khashuri (Shtanchaeva & Subías 2010) Global distribution. Mediterranean Ecology. Forest soils Remark. Shtanchaeva & Subías (2012) described S. (T.) achmedovi from various locations in Caucasus including Georgia. Niedbała (2015) compared this description with description of S. (A.) plakatisi from Greece by Mahunka (1979). He indicated the similarities in body size, sculpture, length and shape of prodorsal and notogastral setae and sensilli; as the only difference the number of ng setae (17–18 pairs in A. achmedovae and 16 – in A. plakatisi) is regarded, but Niedbała regarded this character as variable. Hence, the Caucasian findings are considered as new locations of S. (A.) plakatisi.
Published as part of Murvanidze, Maka & Mumladze, Levan, 2016, Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites, pp. 1-81 in Zootaxa 4089 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4089.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/257567