Cepheidae Berlese 1896

Family: Cepheidae Berlese, 1896 Remark: Cepheidae Berlese, 1896, the commonly used name for this oribatid mite family, is a junior homonym of Cepheidae Agassiz, 1862 (Cnidaria). A proposal to establish a replacement name for Cepheidae Berlese has been submitted to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (Halliday & Norton 2019). Tritegeus bisulcatus Grandjean, 1953 * Distribution in Georgia: Village Chiora. Mixed forest with Fagus orientalis and Taxus baccata. N42.758222 ˚ E43.560744 ˚ 1750 m a.s.l. One individual, coll. N. Todria, 20 Aug. 2016. Global distribution: Palaearctic Ecology: Forest soils
Published as part of Murvanidze, Maka, Todria, Nino, Maraun, Mark & Mumladze, Levan, 2023, Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites-II, pp. 50-62 in Zootaxa 5227 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5227.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7518216
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