MESOPLOPHORIDAE
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6285359 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/60DF8F0A-4488-0829-DF0F-E350DBB098A4 |
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Thomas |
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MESOPLOPHORIDAE |
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MESOPLOPHORIDAE View in CoL Ewing, 1917
The genus Mesoplophora Berlese (1904b) was compared by Berlese with " Hoploderma ", and later (Berlese, 1913a, p. 7) indeed classified with the " Hoplophoridae ". Ewing (1917, p. 119) created a subfamily Mesoplophorinae (part of the " Hoplodermatidae "), which was later raised to family rank. Jacot (1923, p. 161) classified the Mesoplophoridae with the Ginglymosoma (= Ptyctima), a classification that has been adopted by Sellnick (1928) and Willmann (1931).
Grandjean (1933a, p. 308; 1934a, p. 356) reckoned the Mesoplophoridae also among the Ptyctima, although he pointed to the possibility of a different phylogeny. In 1954 he classified the Mesoplophoridae , however, as an isolated family of uncertain relationship. I remark that a study of the interesting genus Archoplophora 1) nov. gen. (mentioned below) certainly will enlarge our knowledge of the isolated family.
1) From arche and hoplophora.
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