Nenteriidae Hirschmann, 1979

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Nenteriidae Hirschmann, 1979

Nenteriidae Hirschmann, 1979b: 70 (nomen nudum).

Type genus Nenteria Oudemans, 1915: 185 , by inference from the family name.

Notes. This family name was first used by Hirschmann (1979b) with seven included genera, but without any description or diagnosis. At that time the family had the same taxonomic content as the Ganggattung called Nenteria in Hirschmann (1979b, page 65). In Volume 32 of Acarologie, Hirschmann published eight papers each describing a new genus in the family Nenteriidae . For example, in the first of those papers Hirschmann (1985a) described Dobrogensisnenteria Hirschmann, 1985 . None of those papers contained any descriptive information about the family. Farrier & Hennessey (1993), Vázquez & Klompen (2007, as Nentereiidae), Kontschán (2010b, 2012a, and elsewhere), also used the family name but did not provide a description or any other taxonomic information about the family. Beaulieu et al. (2011) used the family name but attributed the name to Hirschmann (1979b) and did not provide a description or any other taxonomic information. Hirschmann (1993), Wiśniewski & Hirschmann (1988, 1993), Wiśniewski (1993a, 1993b, 1993c), Kontschán (2006) and many other authors used the genus name but not the family name. As well as Nenteriidae , the genus Nenteria has been placed in the Trematuridae ( Karg, 1989; Bal & Özkan, 2000; Mašán, 2001), Uropodidae ( El-Banhawy et al., 1997) , and Uropodinae: Trichouropodini ( Hirschmann, 1985b and others). I have been unable to locate any description or diagnosis that would make the family name available, so it remains a nomen nudum.