Hypochthonius C. L. Koch, 1836

Hypochthonius C. L. Koch, 1836, fasc. 3 (19, 20); 1842, vol. 3, p. 109.

Hypocthonius, Berlese, 1896a, fasc. 79 (11); 1896b, pp. 24, 25.

Hypochthonius, Berlese, 1910, p. 217; 1913a, p. 36.

In the above the development is explained of Berlese's conception of the genus Hypochthonius . Berlese (1913a) finally regarded the following species as representatives: rufulus C. L. Koch (the type of the genus), ventricosus Canestrini (a species of uncertain relationship, possibly Archegozetes), pallidulus (non C. L. Koch; now Eniochthonius fam. Eniochthoniidae), crosbyi Ewing (recently redescribed, although insufficiently, by Woolley, 1956, p. 290, figs. 3, 4; the species certainly does not belong to the Hypochthoniidae or the Eniochthoniidae), and asiaticus Berlese (now Eohypochthonius).

Berlese dated the genus Hypochthonius at first as 1842, and later as 1835; in fact the correct date is 1836. I remark that for some time Berlese spelt the generic name as Hypocthonius .