@misc{Raspoting_Günther_Distinctive_2008,
 author={Raspoting, Günther and Krisper, Günther and Fauler, Günther and Leis, Hans-Jörg},
 volume={58},
 editor={Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk},
 number={2},
 copyright={Rights Reserved - Restricted Access},
 journal={Annales Zoologici},
 address={Warszawa},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2008},
 publisher={Natura optima dux Foundation},
 language={eng},
 title={Distinctive cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida)},
 type={Text},
 keywords={Cerotegument, Collohmannia, Hermannia, hydrocarbons, lipid layer, Oribatida, Steganacarus, Zetorchestes, Cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of representatives of different groups oforibatid mites (Mixonomata: Steganacarus carinatus, Collohmannia gigantea; Desmonomata: Hermannia gibba; Brachypylida: Zetorchestes falzonii) were investigated by gas chromatography – mass spectrometry. In general, cuticular extracts showed a series of straight chain alkanes being arranged in two (or three, respectively) distinctly different patterns: 1) a pattern with a gaussian quantitative distribution ofalkanes from C23 to C36 was noticed in extracts of C. gigantea and H. gibba, with C29 – C32being most abundant. 2) A pattern exhibiting a saw-tooth-like quantitative distribution ofalkanes – with only odd-numberd alkanes being abundant – appeared to be characteristicfor S. carinatus. 3) Extracts of Z. falzonii showed no hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons are considered to origin in a lipid layer which is covering the cuticle: this layer is regardedto represent the inner – and in some cases the only – layer of the oribatid cerotegument. The differences in cuticular hydrocarbon profiles among oribatid species may representa promising point of attachment for further chemosystematic studies.},
}