Malacoangelia

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 15-16

Malacoangelia Berlese, 1913

Malacoangelia Berlese, 1913, p. 101; 1913a, p. 8; Ewing, 1917, p. 124; Grandjean, 1935, p. 237; 1947, p. 223; 1954, p. 429.

Originally, Berlese described Malacoangelia as having the characters and the habitus of the genus Malaconothrus with the exception of the differently shaped sensillus and bothridium. In a survey of the System of the Acari, Berlese (1913a) classified Malacoangelia together with Lohmannia , Malaconothrus , etc. in the tribe " Michaeliini ", a subdivision of the family Nothridae . Shortly after (Berlese 1916a, p. 176), he created a new tribe " Lohmannini " (a subdivision of the Malaconothridae ) containing the genera Lohmannia , Perlohmannia , Epilohmannia , Medacoangelia , and Eulohmannia . The conformity of Malacoangelia with Malaconothrus or Lohmannia , which Berlese erroneously supposed, is inconceivable to us. Ewing (1917) already, relying on the original description only, correctly placed the genus in the family Hypochthoniidae . Grandjean (1935) again demonstrated the close relationship with Hypochthonius ; the same opinion is found in his later classification of the Enarthronota (1947, 1954).

Medacoangelia remigera is the type and single representative of the genus.