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.