S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 54. (Budapest, 1993)

O Anoplozetes B Keralotrichus (•) Rohria # Ghilarovus A Mikizetes B Pallidacarus • Hungaromotrichus B Oglasacarus B Zetomotrichus Map. 1. Distribution of the Zetomotrichidae taxa (Epilohmannia imreorum Bayoumi et Mahunka, 1976) of the species group: Epilohmannia gigantea (so far have been known exclusively from Italy and Greece) from Szénafüvek in the environs of Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár). A recent, further step was made in this line when we started to study the nature conservation area of Bátorliget (Mahunka 1991). Since several taxa came forward from this marshy locality which proved to new not only to Hungary but also to the whole of the Carpathian Basin, like Lohmannia regalis Berlese, 1923, Indotritia consimilis Märkel, 1964, Atropacarus phyllophorus (Berlese, 1904) Ctenobelba pilosella Jeleva, 1962, Machuella sp., The presence of these taxa strongly supported south-north immigration route into Transylvania. Furthermore, it became evident that the rather high proportion of the Mediterranean elements in the fauna composition of the eastern-southeastern Carpathians is suitable to characterize this region zoogeographically. For me the final proof of the theory is the herewith described new taxon. The relatives of the new genus belonging to the family Zetomotrichidae should be looked for among the representatives of the highly similar family Otocepheidae, which are typical tropical (subtropical) elements (Map. 1). So far we know two genera of 4 species from the Mediterranean region. The family is new for the Carpathian Basin as well as for the whole of Central Europe. Heretofore the northernmost locality of its distribution was recorded from Bulgaria. Consequently we may take it for granted that a significant proportion of the Oribatid fauna