A list of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Vietnam.

A species list of identified oribatid mite taxa (Acari, Oribatida) in the fauna of Vietnam is provided. During 1967-2015, a total of 535 species/subspecies from 222 genera and 81 families was registered. Of these, 194 species/subspecies were described as new for science from Vietnam.

Introduction

The first data on oribatid mite fauna (, ) of Vietnam were presented by Balogh and Mahunka (1967). Subsequent studies of oribatids during the next 40 years were fragmentary in character, and the main papers on descriptions of new taxa and new records are the following: Rajski and Szudrowicz (1974), Golosova (1983, 1984), Vu et al. (1985, 1987), Jeleva and Vu (1987), Mahunka (1987, 1988, 1989), Niedbała (1989, 2000, 2004), Vu (1990, 1993, 1994), Starý (1993), Vu and Thi (1995), Krivolutsky (1998), Vu and Nguyen (2000, 2005), and Pavlichenko (2001).

Until 2007, only 195 species were recorded in Vietnam. Vu (2007) summarized this data, but his paper omitted more than 50 species, and did not consider synonyms and modern systematics.

A significant increase on oribatid taxonomic knowledge for Vietnam was contributed by the author and colleagues, which is based on material collected during joint Russian-Vietnamese expeditions in 2006–2014: Ermilov and Anichkin (2010, 2011a-k, 2012a-d, 2013a-g, 2014a-g), Ermilov (2011, 2013), Ermilov et al. (2011a-c, 2012a-f, 2013a-c, 2014a-f), Niedbała and Ermilov (2013, 2014), Anichkin et al. (2014). At present, Vietnamese oribatid mites have been actively studied by several researchers (Ermilov 2015a, b; Ermilov and Anichkin 2015a, b; Ermilov and Bayartogtokh 2015; Ermilov and Corpuz-Raros 2015; Fernandez et al. 2015a, b; Vu et al. 2015).

The objective of this paper is to list all identified oribatid mite taxa known from Vietnam to date (1 September 2015), to present primary references (in square brackets) on descriptions of new species or new findings for each species, and to provide the subsequent faunistic and taxonomic studies.

General taxonomic system of used in this paper mostly follows that of Subías (2004, online version 2015), Weigmann (2006), Norton and Behan-Pelletier (2009), and Schatz et al. (2011).

Species list

Conclusion

The list of oribatid mites of Vietnam includes now 535 species/subspecies, 222 genera and 81 families. Of these, 194 species/subspecies were described as new for science from Vietnam; 94 species have been described by Ermilov and co-authors, 30 species by Balogh and Mahunka, 28 species by Mahunka, 21 species by Niedbała, 6 species by Jeleva and Vu, 4 species by Fernandez and co-authors, 3 species by Krivolutsky, 2 species by Golosova, 2 species by Starý, 2 species by Vu and co-authors, 1 species by Balogh, 1 species by Rajski and Szudrowicz.