New species, new records and re-description of spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) from India
Author
Zeity, Mahran
Author
Srinivasa, N.
Author
Gowda, C. Chinnamade
text
Zootaxa
2016
2016-03-03
4085
3
journal volume
31429
10.11646/zootaxa.4085.3.5
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1175-5326
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Oligonychus coniferarum
(McGregor)
Paratetranychus coniferarum
McGregor, 1950
:338
.
Oligonychus coniferarum
(McGregor)
,
Pritchard and Baker, 1955
:328
–329.
Oligonychus
(
Oligonychus
)
coniferarum
(McGregor)
,
n. comb
.
Tuttle & Baker (1968)
: 118
.
This is a new record from
India
and the Asian continent. The aedeagus has a short and caudoventrally directed blunt tip at an angle. This species belongs to the
ununguis
(
Pritchard & Baker 1955
).
Specimens
examined.
Three
females and six males:
Botanical
garden,
GKVK
,
Bangalore
,
January 2013
, ex.
Cupressus
sp., coll.
Mahran Zeity
(
AINP1160
)
;
two females and four males:
NBFGR
campus,
Lucknow
,
Uttar Pradesh
;
February 2014
, ex.
Thuja
sp., coll.
N. Srinivasa
(
AINP1446
)