Epilohmanniidae Oudemans, 1923

Murvanidze, Maka, Todria, Nino, Maraun, Mark & Mumladze, Levan, 2023, Annotated checklist of Georgian oribatid mites-II, Zootaxa 5227 (1), pp. 50-62 : 51-52

Family: Epilohmanniidae Oudemans, 1923

Epilohmannia styriaca Schuster, 1960

Distribution in Georgia: Musera, hornbeam-oak forest, N43.170804 ˚ E40.432904 ˚, 164m a.s.l, coll. Z. Tarba ( Shtanchaeva & Subías 2010); village Mandaeti, home garden, N42.174774 ˚ E43.328157 ˚, 776m a.s.l., two individuals coll. L. Mumladze, 26 Oct. 2021.

Global distribution: Palaearctic

Ecology: Humid forest soils

Remark: This is the first report of the species since the early reports from Musera ( Tarba 1978). Checklist I include one more location from the Abkhazian region of Georgia (Ochamchire) according to Shtanchaeva & Subías (2010), referring to Bulanova-Zakhvatkina (1970). After examination of the latter paper, we did not find matching information; therefore, this location may be discarded.