PARHYPOCHTHONIIDAE

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 10

PARHYPOCHTHONIIDAE Grandjean, 1932

Originally the genus Parhypochthonius has been classified with the Hypochthoniidae (Berlese, 1910, 1913a; Willmann, 1931). Grandjean (1932a) created, however, a separate family Parhypochthoniidae that, on account of numerous primitive characters, was incorporated in the " Palaeacariformes ". Because other important characters are contrary to this relation, Grandjean (1954, p. 429) considered the Parhypochthoniidae an isolated family; it is here placed between the Palaeacaroidea and the Enarthronota [ PARHYPOCHTHONOIDEA nov. superfam.], although it has certainly no intermediate position.