Trhypochthonius

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 73

Trhypochthonius Berlese, 1904

Trhypochthonius Berlese, 1904b, p. 27; 1913a, p. 154.

Tripochthonius Berlese, 1910, p. 218.

Berlese created the genus Trhypochthonius in 1904 with Hypocthonius tectorum as type; at the same time he described T. longisetus as a new species of the genus. In 1905 he described another species ( T. badius ) but he now spelt the generic name as Tripochtonius . Five years later Berlese (1910) published a key to the genera of the Hypochthoniidae , among which Tripochthonius (sic!) is mentioned; he mentions four representatives: tectorum (Berlese) , badius Berlese , longisetus Berlese , and americanus (Ewing) . Recently (Van der Hammen, 1956), I published a preliminary revision of the genus, in which longisetus and badius are referred to Trhypochthoniellus .