HERMANNIIDAE

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 82

HERMANNIIDAE Sellnick, 1928

Originally, Michael as well as Berlese classified the genus Hermannia Nicolet (1855) with the Nothridae s.lat. Sellnick (1928) created, however, a separate family Hermanniidae that he placed between Nanhermanniidae and Malaconothridae . Willmann (1931) united the family with the Neoliodidae and created a subphalanx Immarginatae, part of the Macropylina, an artificial classification that is based on the structure of the ventral surface.

Willmann's System remained the current classification till Grandjean (1954) created a superfamily Nothroidea in which he incorporated the present family, although several characters of the Hermanniidae point to a separate position (no trichobothridial regression, absence of the anal fissure, exoskeleton resembling that of the higher Oribatei, etc.).

Two genera are mentioned as representatives of the family: Hermannia and Phyllhermannia . The systematic position of the last-mentioned genus appears, however, uncertain.