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Aceria cajani Channabasavanna 1966

Description

Aceria cajani Channabasavanna, 1966

Aceria cajani Channabasavanna, 1966: 62–63.

Aceria cajani; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 29–30.

Aceria cajani; Kumar et al., 2001: 61.

Host. Cajanus cajan (Fabaceae).

Habit. Vagrant, discoloration, sterility, virus transmission.

Distribution. Myanmar, India (Bangalore, Mysore), Nepal.

Remarks. Aceria cajani is an important pest of pigeonpea and can transmit pigeonpea sterility mosaic virus (PPSMV) (Kumer et al. 2001, 2002 & 2005; Kulkarni et al. 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 33

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Channabasavanna
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trombidiformes
Family
Eriophyidae
Genus
Aceria
Species
cajani
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aceria cajani Channabasavanna, 1966 sec. Xue & Zhang, 2009

References

  • Channabasavanna, G. P. (1966) A contribution to the knowledge of Indian eriophyid mites (Eriophyoidea: Trombidiformes: Acarina). University of Agricultural Science, Hebbal, Bangalore, India, 154 pp.
  • Amrine, J. W. Jr. & Stasny, T. A. (1994) Catalog of the Eriophyoidea (Acarina: Prostigmata) of the world. Indira Publishing House, Michigan, U. S. A., 798 pp.
  • Kumar, P. L., Fenton, B., Duncan, G. H., Jones, A. T., Sreenivasulu, P. & Reddy, D. V. (2001) Assessment of variation in Aceria cajani using analysis of rDNA ITS regions and scanning electron microscopy: implications for the variability observed in host plant resistance to pigeonpea sterility mosaic disease. Annals of Applied Biology, 139, 61 - 73.
  • Kulkarni, N. K., Kumar, P. L. Muniyappa, V. & Jones, A. T. & Reddy, D. V. R. (2002) Transmission of Pigeonpea sterility mosaic virus by the eriophyid mite, Aceria cajani (Acari: Arthropoda). Plant Disease, 86, 1297 - 1302.