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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Pseudotritia monodactyla
Willmann, 1919
Tritia (Pseudotritia) monodactyla
Willmann, 1919, p. 552, fig. 1; Sellnick, 1923, p. 20, figs. 9, 20, 32.
?
Tritia aequipunctata
Berlese, 1923, p. 260.
Pseudotritia monodactyla
, Sellnick, 1928, p. 39; Willmann, 1931, p. 195, figs. 362, 363;
Maerkel
, 1958, p. 488, fig. 7.
I have placed
Tritia aequipunctata
with some doubt in the synonymy of
Pseudotritia monodactyla
;
Maerkel's
1958 redescription of
monodactyla
suits, however, to the notes that I made in 1956.
In the Berlese Collection the type is present (slide no. 216/15; locality: Florence, Cascine), together with slide no. 225/36, a cotype (read: paratype) from Florence ("cotype" is written in pencil, an earlier designation as "tipico" is cancelled). The structure of the tegument of these speeimens, the shape of the sensillus, the notogastral hairs, and the monodactylous legs resemble those of
monodactyla
.