NANHERMANNIIDAE

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 78

NANHERMANNIIDAE Sellnick, 1928

Berlese classified Nothrus nanus Nicolet with the family Nothridae . At first he regarded it as a Hermannia , but in 1913 he created the genus Nanhermannia with nanus as type. Sellnick (1928) placed this genus in a separate family Nanhermanniidae . Willmann (1931) united the Nanhermanniidae and the Eulohmanniidae in a subcohors Diagastres; as Willmann already supposed, this classification is artificial. Grandjean (1954) considered the Nanhermanniidae a family of the Nothroidea , and this classification is used in the present paper.

Two genera of the family are known: Nanhermannia and Masthermannia .