PROTOPLOPHORIDAE

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 28

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PROTOPLOPHORIDAE
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PROTOPLOPHORIDAE View in CoL Ewing, 1917

Although Jacot is generally mentioned as author of the present family, the group was in fact created by Ewing (1917, p. 119) as subfamily of the " Hoplodermatidae ". Jacot (1923) mentions the group as subdivision of the Ginglymosoma (= Ptyctima). At that time it consisted of 4 species that all had been described by Berlese ( Protoplophora palpalis , Arthrhoplophora paradoxa , Prototritia armadillo , and Prototritia vulpes ).

In 1932 Grandjean published a paper on the family; he described two new genera ( Cryptoplophora , Aedoplophora ), contributed with some doubt two species to the genus Protoplophora , and pointed to the relationship of Cryptoplophora and Aedoplophora with Sphaerochthonius . In the 4th series of notes on the Enarthronota (Grandjean, 1954b) he redescribed Cryptoplophora and Aedoplophora ; at the same time he mentioned that useful fragments of his two " Protoplophora " species are no more present in his collection.

Berlese's Protoplophoridae represent a collection of insufficiently described ptychoid Oribatid mites. For the moment it is difficult to establish further details, because the material in the Collection is in a bad condition and one type is no more present. Nevertheless, I think that the original descriptions of Arthrhoplophora and Prototritia will be sufficient to recognize the species when new specimens are collected.

I remark that Jacot (1938a, p. 112) classified the genus Phtiracarulus Berlese with the Protoplophoridae 1). I discovered, however, that Phtiracarulus perexiguus Berlese , the type of the genus Phtiracarulus , is a juvenile Mesoplophora michaeliana Berlese , so that Phtiracarulus must be placed in the synonymy of Mesoplophora . The genus Phtiracarulus sensu Jacot, founded on adults as well as nymphs, appears to be strongly different from Protoplophora , but related to Mesoplophora ; it is dealt with here in the chapter on the Mesoplophoridae .

1) Jacot (1938a) regarded the group as a subfamily ( Protoplorinae ), which he divided into two tribes: Protoplophorini and Phtiracarulini .

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