Trhypochthonius Berlese, 1904

Trhypochthonius Berlese, 1904b, p. 27; 1913a, p. 154.

Tripochthonius Berlese, 1910, p. 218.

Berlese created the genus Trhypochthonius in 1904 with Hypocthonius tectorum as type; at the same time he described T. longisetus as a new species of the genus. In 1905 he described another species (T. badius) but he now spelt the generic name as Tripochtonius. Five years later Berlese (1910) published a key to the genera of the Hypochthoniidae, among which Tripochthonius (sic!) is mentioned; he mentions four representatives: tectorum (Berlese), badius Berlese, longisetus Berlese, and americanus (Ewing). Recently (Van der Hammen, 1956), I published a preliminary revision of the genus, in which longisetus and badius are referred to Trhypochthoniellus.