EPILOHMANNIIDAE

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 53

EPILOHMANNIIDAE Oudemans, 1923

The name Epilohmanniidae was introduced by Oudemans in 1923 in order to replace the name Lesseriidae (Oudemans, 1917), the generic name Lesseria Oudemans (1917) being preoccupied by Epilohmannia Berlese (1916). Just as the other Perlohmannoidea , the Epilohmanniidae must be considered an isolated family.

Jacot (1936a, p. 546) created a genus Epilohmannoides (type: E. terrae Jacot, l.c.), characterized e.g. by the fact that genital and anal openings are separated from each other by "a very narrow bar of the ventral plate" only; the diagnosis is, however, insufficient to draw definite conclusions as to the systematic position of the genus.