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
ORI111
0DC6B575-3CB3-41C1-A3EC-850520AE4487
Pseudotritia vestita
(Berlese, 1913)
Hoploderma vestitum Berlese
, 1913, p. 103, pl. 8 figs. 103, 103a 1).
Although the species is not mentioned by Lombardini (1936), two cotypes (nos. 141/17, 21) are still present in the Collection; they originate from the type-locality Semarang (Java), but one slide has only Java as locality.
I could study the animal in lateral view only. This study as well as Berlese's drawing (the lateral view of the aspis for instance) point to the
Euphthiracaridae
(Berlese erroneously classified the species with
Hoploderma
!). I have classified the species with
Pseudotritia
because of the absence of a ridge on the aspis.
1) In the explanation of pl. 8 an erroneous reference is made to fig. 102a.