Phtiracarus reticulatus Berlese
Tritia reticulata
Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites
van der Hammen, L.
Zoologische Verhandelingen
1959
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Willmann, 1920
Willmann
1920
Arachnida
Euphthiracaridae
Pseudotritia
GBIF
Animalia
Oribatida
37
38
Arthropoda
species
reticulata
Phtiracarus reticulatus Berlese, 1913, p. 102, pl. 8 figs., 98, 97a. Tritia reticulata, Lombardini, 1936, p. So.
In the Berlese Collection I have seen two slides with specimens from the type-locality (Tiarno): nos. 31/22 and 216/28; the first-mentioned slide contains also other species.
The microsculpture of the tegument of the present species is reticulate; the hairs of notogaster and prodorsum are long, strong, and pointed. The sensillus is S-shaped.
Phtiracarus reticulatusis related to Pseudotritia punctulata. It is classified here with the genus Pseudotritia, although the structure of the tegument resembles that of Euphthiracarus.