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Hemicheyletia bakeri

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Description

Hemicheyletia bakeri (Ehara, 1962)

Material examined — Five females, Dubai, 12 Jan. 2013, 25°06’ N, 55°09’ E, alt. 7 m, on C. arvensis.

Remarks — This species was described from Rose mallow, Hibiscus rose-sinensis (Malvaceae) in a greenhouse in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (Ehara, 1962). It was found predating on citrus red mite, Panonychus citri (McGregor) in Ehime prefecture of Japan (Razaq et al., 2001). This is the first report of the family Cheyletidae from the UAE.

Distribution — Australia (Gerson, 1994), Israel (Gerson, 1967), Pakistan (Qayyum and Chaudhri, 1979), Philippines (Corpuz-Raros, 1972) and USA (Muma, 1964).

Notes

Published as part of Negm, M. W., 2014, Increasing Knowledge Of The Mite Fauna Of The United Arab Emirates: New Records And A Checklist, pp. 113-120 in Acarologia 54 (1) on page 117, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20142118, http://zenodo.org/record/5402531

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Biodiversity

Event date
2013-01-12
Verbatim event date
2013-01-12
Scientific name authorship
Ehara
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trombidiformes
Family
Cheyletidae
Genus
Hemicheyletia
Species
bakeri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hemicheyletia bakeri (Ehara, 1962) sec. Negm, 2014

References

  • Ehara S. 1962 - Mites of greenhouse plants in Hokkaido, with a new species of Cheyletidae. - Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 35 (2): 106 - 111.
  • Razaq A., Shiraishi M., Manabe T., Ohbayashi N. 2001 - External features of cheyletid predatory mite, Hemicheyletia bakeri (Ehara) found in citrus orchards of Japan - Pak. J. Biol. Sci., 4 (5): 597 - 601.
  • Gerson U. 1994 - The Australian Cheyletidae (Acari: Prostigmata) - Invert. Tax., 8: 435 - 437.
  • Gerson U. 1967 - Some cheyletid and pseudocheyletid mites from Israel - Acarologia, 10: 359 - 369.
  • Qayyum H. A., Chaudhri W. M. 1979 - Mites of the genus Hemicheyletia (Acarina: Cheyletidae) described from Pakistan - Pak. J. Zool., 11: 167 - 172.
  • Corpuz-Raros L. A. 1972 - Systematic studies of Philippine cheyletid mites. I. Preliminary report of species mainly from Laguna - The Philippine Entomologist, 72: 247 - 271.
  • Muma M. H. 1964 - Cheyletidae (Acarina: Trombidiformes) associated with citrus in Florida - Fla. Entomol., 47: 239 - 253. doi: 10.2307 / 3493742