Description of eleven new species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Meghalaya state, north eastern India
Author
Kar, Anamika
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Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India. & anamika _ kar 7 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5318 - 8308
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Author
Karmakar, Krishna
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Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India. & kkbckv 64 @ gmail. com; karmakar. krishna @ bckv. edu. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5582 - 3560
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-11-17
5068
3
301
354
journal article
3480
10.11646/zootaxa.5068.3.1
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1175-5326
5706882
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Genus:
Okiseius
Ehara, 1967a
Okiseius
Ehara, 1967a: 77
.
Type
species
Okiseius subtropicus
Ehara, 1967a: 77
.
Okiseius
(
Kampimodromellus
)
Kolodochka & Denmark, 1996: 223
.
Type
species:
Amblyseius
(
Kampimodromus
)
maritimus
Ehara, 1967b: 224
.
Following the classification of Chant & McMurty (2007)
Okiseius jainticus
sp. nov.
and
Okiseius unisetatus
sp. nov.
belong to tribe
Kampimodromini Kolodochka, 1998
, and subtribe
Kampimodromina Kolodochka, 1998
, without a distinct notch or incision in the lateral margin of the dorsal shield at the level of seta
s4
.
Chant & McMurtry (2003)
proposed two species groups based on the point of insertion of seta
R
1
: the
subtropicus
species group with this seta inserted on dorsal shield with a distinct notch at the lateral margin of dorsal shield below
R
1
of females and the
maritimus
species group with seta
R
1
inserted on lateral integument of females without notch at the lateral margin. The new species
O
.
jainticus
sp. nov.
is grouped under
maritimus
species group while
O. unisetatus
sp. nov
.
is grouped under
subtropicus
species group.