Brachychthonius berlesei

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 20

Brachychthonius berlesei Willmann, 1928

Brachychthonius brevis , Berlese, 1910, p. 220, pl. 19 fig. 39; Lombardini, 1936, p. 38.

Brachychthonius berlesei Willmann, 1928a, p. 160 fig. II.

As mentioned above, Berlese's 1910 record of B. brevis refers to B. berlesei Willmann. This species is known from several countries in Europe; there are many preparations of it in the Berlese Collection.

I remark that Berlese (1896b, p. 25), in an introduction to the classification of Oribatid mites, also mentioned Hypochthonius brevis (among the representatives of the Hypochthoniidae ); because reference is made to Michael's specimens only, this record certainly relates to the real B. brevis Michael .