Camisia

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 65

Camisia Von Heyden, 1826

Camisia Von Heyden, 1826, p. 612.

Nothrus , Berlese, 1883a, fasc. 17 (6); 1885c, pp. 3, 49; 1885d, p. 127; 1896b, pp. 24, 28; 1913a, p. 60.

Von Heyden (1826) created the genus Camisia and designated Notaspis segnis Hermann as the type. Berlese did not know the name Camisia and used Nothrus instead of it. The name Nothrus is now used for a different genus as was mentioned above in the chapter on the family Nothridae .

Berlese (1885a) published a generic diagnosis and mentioned N. bicarinatus (correct name: C. segnis ) as type of the genus. In the same year (Berlese, 1885c) he mentioned the following species in a key: spinifer , bicarinatus (= segnis ), segnis (= biurus ), angulatus (= horrida ), horridus (= biverrucata ); in another paper (Berlese, 1885d) he gave a short diagnosis only.

Berlese (1896b) mentioned a number of species, whilst later (1913a) he gave a long list, among which are species that now belong to the genera Heminothrus , Acronothrus , and Nothrus ( N. quadripilus is listed in the same paper with Angelia as well as with Nothrus ).

Berlese made a number of errors in the nomenclature of the species, which are dealt with below.

I remark that in 1913 Berlese created a subgenus Uronothrus with segnis (read: biurus ) as type. In the Berlese Collection biurus is indeed labelled as Nothrus (Uronothrus) segnis . On the other hand, the real segnis and horrida are labelled as representatives of a subgenus Eunothrus that has never been published. The creation of a subgenus Uronothrus appears superfluous.