Trimalaconothrus crinitus

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 77-78

Trimalaconothrus crinitus (Berlese, 1908)

Malaconothrus crinitus Berlese , 1908, p. 12; 1910, p. 223, pl. 19 fig. 44.

Although the present species is not described or figured as tridaetyle, nor enumerated in Berlese's 1916 list of Trimalaconothrus species, it is recorded in the Catalogue as M. (T.) crinitus 2).

The type (from Columbia, Missouri) is no more present, but there is a slide (no. 209/18) from Lake City (Florida) with a specimen that Berlese labelled as crinitus ; it is indeed a Trimalaconothrus . The measurements recorded by Berlese are 0.380 X 0.200 mm. The original description is, however, not suf ficient to prove the identity of the last-mentioned specimen.

2) Knuelle (1957, p. 159) lists crinitus with the species of Malaconothrus .