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
Willmann, 1919
Pseudotritia
Willmann, 1919, p. 552; Jacot, 1930, p. 242.
Willmann (1919) created
Pseudotritia
as a subgenus of
Tritia
, with
T. (P.) monodactyla
Willmann (1919) as type; aecording to him the subgenus is characterized by the presence of only one claw at the legs. Sellnick (1923) pointed already to the fact that the strueture of the genital region and the chaetotaxy of the notogaster of
Pseudotritia
resemble those of some other
Tritia
species. Jacot (e.g. 1930) used indeed the strueture of the ano-genital region as main character of
Pseudotritia
. Later authors followed him in this modified coneeption of the genus.
Seven of Berlese's species are listed here with the genus
Pseudotritia
; originally they have been described by him as representatives of
Tritia
(1887a, 1916b, 1923) and
Phtiracarus
(1904b, 1913), and one time (1913) erroneously as a
Hoploderma
. Three species (
punctulata
,
reticulata
, and
vestita
) are probably related to
Euphthiracarus
.