Oribotritia

Oribotritia Jacot, 1924

Oribotritia Jacot, 1924, p. 83.

Tritia Berlese, 1883a, fasc. 6(1); (p.p.) 1896b, p. 20.

Phtiracarus (p.p.), Berlese, 1913a, p. 55.

Berlese (1883a) created the genus Tritia, with Hoplophora decumana C. L. Koch as type; he used the generic name later on for species of the families Oribotritiidae and Euphthiracaridae. Michael (1898) placed Tritia in the synonymy of Phthiracarus Perty, and Berlese adopted this opinion between 1904 and 1913, when he contributed species of the above-mentioned two families to Phtiracarus. Berlese (1913a) published a diagnosis of " Phtiracarus " and designated P. berlesei (= Oribotritia decumana) as type of the genus, although Phthiracarus is monotypical (type: P. contractilis). In his 1916 and 1923 papers Berlese returned, however, to the use of Tritia.

Jacot (1924) discovered that Tritia is preoccupied. For this reason he created the new name Oribotritia. Hoplophora decumana is of course also the type of Oribotritia.

Three species of the genus are dealt with in Berlese's papers.