Nanhermannia coronata Berlese

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 80-81

Nanhermannia coronata Berlese , 1913

Nanhermannia coronata Berlese , 1913, p. 100, pl. 7 fig. 85; Lombardini, 1936, p. 45.

The type of the present species (slide no. 145/3, specimen from Lake City, Florida) has a strong resemblance to N. nana sensu Willmann. According to Jacot (1937, p. 238) it is identical with Carabodes dorsalis Banks (1896, p. 77), of which the type-specimens were collected on "the surface of a large boulder, in the woods" near Sea Cliff, Long Island, N.Y. (U.S.A.). Specimens from Jacot's " dorsalis "-slide no. 34 F. 3.2 p.3 (also bearing no. 70) are, however, different; they resemble N. komareki Kunst (1956).

For the moment I prefer to give no name to N. nana sensu Willmann; a study of the variability of this species (based on European and American 1) material), and detailed redescriptions of coronata , dorsalis (Banks) , and dorsalis sensu Jacot are badly needed before anything can be said about their synonymy.

1) Strenzke (1953. p. 74) records nana sensu Willmann from the U.S.A.