Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites
Author
van der Hammen, L.
text
Zoologische Verhandelingen
1959
40
1
93
http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/148866
journal article
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Parhypochthonius Berlese
, 1904
Parhypochthonius
Berlese, 1904b, p. 25: 1910, p. 218: 1913a, p. 7 1).
Berlese published the diagnosis of
Parhypochthonius
together with the description of the type-species (
P. aphidinus
). In 1910 (p. 219) he added two species to the genus, of which in my opinion one (
urticinus
) indeed belongs to it, whilst the other (
acarinus
) has become the type of the genus
Aphelacarus
(
Palaeacaroidea
) 2).
1) In the original diagnosis, the generic name is spelt as
Parhypochthonius
, but on the same page the type-species is named
Parypochthonius aphidinus
. The same difference in spelling is found in Berlese's 1910 paper; here the spelling
Parhypochthonius
is found in the key,
Parypochthonius
in the description of two species.
2) Schweizer (1956, pp. 219-221, figs. 126-130) described five "new" species as representatives of
Parhypochthonius
; these are, however, nymphs and larvae of higher Oribatid mites (
Trichoribates
,
Ceratozetes
,
Scheloribates
,
Sphaerozetes
or
Chamobates
).