Damaeolus asperatus (Berlese, 1904) (Fam.

Damaeolidae): General distribution: southern Palaearctic, Nearctic; preferably in dry and woody habitats. Eisack valley: Säben, in dry shrub forest. Schuster (1965) reported this species from the same site in small stands of Castanea sativa and Quercus pubescens .