Trichocylliba Berlese, 1904

Halliday, R. B., 2015, Catalogue of genera and their type species in the mite Suborder Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 3972 (2), pp. 101-147 : 131

Trichocylliba Berlese, 1904

Cillibano (Thrichocylliba) Berlese, 1904c: 329 .

Type species Discopoma comata Leonardi in Berlese, 1895: 317, designated by Vitzthum, 1942: 787.

Notes. Berlese (1904c) spelled the name of this genus as Thrichocylliba four times on pages 329–331. In the Index to the same paper he spelled it as Trichocylliba or " Trich." seven times (pages 455–464). Almost all authors since then have used the spelling Trichocylliba , including Berlese himself ( Berlese, 1917). Elzinga (1982) described this action by Berlese (1917) as an emendation. Farrier & Hennessey (1993) argued that Trichocylliba is an incorrect subsequent spelling, and selected Thrichocylliba as the correct spelling of the genus name. That was the appropriate action as First Reviser, under Article 24 (b) of the Third Edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, which was in force at the time. However, Article 24.2.3 of the current Code, which did not exist in 1993, makes Berlese (1917) First Reviser, and makes Trichocylliba the correct spelling of the name. No other author before or after Farrier & Hennessey (1993) has used the spelling Thrichocylliba , so I here use the spelling Trichocylliba in the interests of stability. According to Elzinga (1982), Berlese (1904c) designated D. comata as the type species of Trichocylliba , but that appears to be an error.