Family HUTUFEIDERIIDAE Hirschmann, 1979 (nomen nudum)

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Family HUTUFEIDERIIDAE Hirschmann, 1979 (nomen nudum)

Hutufeideriidae Hirschmann, W. 1979. Stadiensystematik der Parasitiformes. Teil 1. Stadienfamilien und Stadiengattungen der Atrichopygidiina, erstellt im Vergleich zum Gangsystem Hirschmann 1979. Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde 26: 57-70 [nomen nudum].

Introduction

Hirschmann (1979) used the name Hutufeideriidae for this family, but did not provide a description or any means of defining the family. The name is therefore technically unavailable under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, but no other name is available for this family, and the family concept is taxonomically useful, so it is provisionally used here until this problem can be corrected (Halliday, 2016). The family Hutufeideriidae includes only the small genus Hutufeideria, with 13 species described from soil and litter in Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and New Guinea. Hirschmann & Wisniewski (1993) arranged these species in a series of species groups, which were previously treated as genera or subgenera. The Australian fauna includes a single species described from the Dandenong Ranges, which was described as Kaszabjbaloghia hirschmanni Hiramatsu, 1978. It was moved into the genus Hutufeideria by Kontschán (2010), which made its name a secondary homonym. The species was re-named as Hutufeideria hirschmannoides by Kontschán (2011), who also provided a diagnosis for the genus and a key to the species.