Hypochthonius C. L. Koch

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 14

Hypochthonius C. L. Koch , 1836

Hypochthonius C. L. Koch, 1836, fasc. 3 (19, 20); 1842, vol. 3, p. 109.

Hypocthonius , Berlese, 1896a, fasc. 79 (11); 1896b, pp. 24, 25.

Hypochthonius , Berlese, 1910, p. 217; 1913a, p. 36.

In the above the development is explained of Berlese's conception of the genus Hypochthonius . Berlese (1913a) finally regarded the following species as representatives: rufulus C. L. Koch (the type of the genus), ventricosus Canestrini (a species of uncertain relationship, possibly Archegozetes ), pallidulus (non C. L. Koch; now Eniochthonius fam. Eniochthoniidae ), crosbyi Ewing (recently redescribed, although insufficiently, by Woolley, 1956, p. 290, figs. 3, 4; the species certainly does not belong to the Hypochthoniidae or the Eniochthoniidae ), and asiaticus Berlese (now Eohypochthonius ).

Berlese dated the genus Hypochthonius at first as 1842, and later as 1835; in fact the correct date is 1836. I remark that for some time Berlese spelt the generic name as Hypocthonius .