Tropacarus pulcherrimus, Ewing, 1917

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

Tropacarus pulcherrimus (Berlese, 1884?)

Hoplophora pulcherrima Berlese , 1884 (?), Spec. Nov. Rep., ser. 5 1); 1885c, p. 30.

Hoplophora carinata var. pulcherrima , Berlese, 1887, fasc. 35 (10).

Hoploderma pulcherrimum , Berlese, 1913a, p. 154, textfig., prep. II-11.

Phthiracarus pulcherrimus , Lombardini, 1936, p. 47.

According to Berlese (1887) the type-specimens of the present species were collected in the Colli Euganei (Padua); later (Berlese, 1913a) the species was recorded from North and Central Italy.

In the Berlese Collection I studied a specimen from Tiarno (in slide no. 31/29); the species is also present in the Acarotheca italica.

I remark that Berlese (1896b) listed the species as a variety, but did not include it in the key.

1) Berlese (1885c) mentioned that Hoplophora pulcherrima was described in the series "Specierum novarum repertorium" (this series is printed on the wrappers of the fasciculi of A.M.S.); ser. 5 is probably to be found in one of the fasc. 13-16.