Trhypochthoniellus badius

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 74

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scientific name	Trhypochthoniellus badius
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Trhypochthoniellus badius (Berlese, 1905)

Tripochtonius badius Berlese , 1905b, p. 237.

Trhypochthonius badius , Berlese, 1913a, p. 155, textfig., prep. II-12; Lombardini, 1936, p. SO.

The type of T. badius is no more present in the Collection. There is a slide (110. 217/31) from Florence (Cascine), and a specimen in the Acarotheca italica; in the Oudemans Collection there is also an " Acarotheca " slide.

The original specimens were collected in moss in a flowerpot in Florence; this moss was possibly Sphagnum, for afterwards the species has been recorded from bogs.

The specimens studied by me are damaged; the dorsal hairs are different from those in Trhypochthonius . The species has a characteristic chestnutbrown colour.