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Obdulia tamaricis Pritchard & Baker 1958
- 1. Research Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus 2520, South Africa.
- 2. Department of Entomology, Newe-Ya'ar Reseach Center, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), P. O. Box 1012, 30095 Ramat Yishay, Israel.
- 3. Department of Entomology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, POB 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
- 4. Department of Diagnosis and Identification of Pests and Diseases, Plant Protection and Inspection Services, POB 78 Bet Dagan 50250, Israel.
Description
Obdulia tamaricis Pritchard & Baker, 1958 (Figure 20)
Diagnosis (Female) — Body broadly oval, prodorsum smoothly rounded anteriorly, all dorsal setae short, setiform and serrate; dorsum striate (Fig 20); ventral and genital shields not outlined, 2 pairs of genital, one pair of aggenital ag () and 2 pairs anal setae (ps) present; palp with one segment with 2 setae and one solenidion.
Hosts and localities — From Tamarix maris-mortui Gutm. (Tamaricaceae), Wadi Fukra, Israel (Pritchard & Baker, 1958). Smith Meyer & Gerson (1981) reported that it occurred all along the Arava, from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea. It was also reported from Greece (Hatzinikolis, 1987) and Iran (Khanjani et al., 2013).
Symptoms — Cause twig galls.
Notes
Published as part of Ueckermann, Edward A., Palevsky, Eric, Gerson, Uri, Recht, Eitan & Theron, Pieter D., 2018, The Tenuipalpidae (Acari: Trombidiformes) of Israel, pp. 483-525 in Acarologia 58 (2) on page 510, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20184255, http://zenodo.org/record/5399530
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tenuipalpidae
- Genus
- Obdulia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Pritchard & Baker
- Species
- tamaricis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Obdulia tamaricis Pritchard, 1958 sec. Ueckermann, Palevsky, Gerson, Recht & Theron, 2018
References
- Pritchard E. A., Baker E. W. 1958. The false spider mites (Acarina: Tenuipalpidae). University of California Publications in Entomology, 14: 175 - 274.
- Smith Meyer M. K. P., Gerson U. 1981. Some false spider mites (Prostigmata: Tenuipalpidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Entomology, 15: 67 - 81.
- Khanjani M., Farsan S., Asadi M., Khanjani M. 2013. Checklist of the flat mites (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) of Iran. Persian Journal of Acarology, 2 (2): 235 - 251.