Brevipalpus lewisi
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Description
McGregor 1949
Specimens examined and associations — Sari (Darab kola forest): 36°32’N, 53°16’E, 216 m a.s.l., 9 Oct. 2010 – 1 ♀ on Alnus subcordata C. A. Mey. (Betulaceae); Juybar county (Juybar): 36°38’N, 52°54’E, - 8 m a.s.l., 1 Sept. 2011 – 4 ♀♀ and 2 Deutonymphs on Campsis grandiflora (Thunb) (Bignoniaceae); Savadkuh county (Shirgah): 36°19’N, 52°50’E, 236 m a.s.l., 8 Sept. 2011 – 4 ♀♀ and 1 Deutonymph on Actinidia deliciosa (Chev.) C.F.Liang et Ferguson (Actinidiaceae); 1 ♀ and 1 Deutonymph on Salix alba (Salicaceae).
Previous records from Iran — Khorramabad, Lorestan Province (Khosrowshahi and Arbabi 1997); Tehran, Guilan, Mazandaran and Azarbaijan Provinces (Kamali et al. 2001); Kerman, Kerman Province; Jiroft (Dalfard and Karimabad), Kerman Province (Khanjani et al., 2013a).
Comments — The host plants: A. subcordata, C. grandiflora and S. alba are new records for B. lewisi (Beard et al., 2013).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Prostigmata
- Family
- Tenuipalpidae
- Genus
- Brevipalpus
- Species
- lewisi
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- McGregor E. A. 1949 - Nearctic mites of the family Pseudoleptidae - Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci., 3 (2): 1 - 45.
- Kamali K., Ostovan H., Atamehr A. 2001 - A catalog of Mites and Ticks (Acari) of Iran - Islamic Azad University Scientific Publication Center. Tehran: pp. 127.
- Khanjani M., Farzan F., Asadi M., Khanjani M. 2013 a - Checklist of the flat mites (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) of Iran - Pers. J. Acarol., 2 (2): 235 - 251.
- Beard J. J., Ochoa R., Bauchan G., Trice M., Redford A., Walters and T., Mitter C. 2013 - Flat Mites of the World [Internet] - [15 Dec. 2013] Available from: (http: // idtools. org / id / mites / flatmites / factsheet _ ind ex. php)