Steganacarus anomalus

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 42

Steganacarus anomalus (Berlese, 1883)

Hoplophora anomala Berlese , 1883a, fasc. 6 (5); 1896b, p. 19.

According to the original description, the species has been collected "in agri Romani (Frosino)" (probably Frosinone), and "in agri Patavini (Monselice)" (by G. Canestrini). These types are no more present in the Collection, but I found the slides nos. 147/37 (garden of the "Stazione di Entomologia agraria", Florence), and 141/38 (Boboli gardens, Florence); I collected indeed specimens of the species at the last-mentioned locality.

Oudemans (1915, p. 219) described a Phthiracarus magna forma anomaloides that in his opinion is not distinctly different from " Phthiracarus anomala Berlese "; on p. 214 he mentions, however, several diagnostic characters of anomala . I remark that according to Oudemans (l.e., p. 214) the original description of anomala was prepared by Berlese and Canestrini.