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Tenuipalpidae

Description

Tenuipalpidae

Brevipalpus phoenicis (Geijskes)

Brevipalpus phoenicis (Geijskes, 1939): 23

Collection sites —Provincia de Santiago: Banegas and La Rotonda, 13 December 2010 on P. guajava; Provincia de Santiago: Banegas, 7 June 2010 on Manihot esculenta (Euphorbiaceae); Provincia de María Trinidad Sánchez: La Palmita, 22 December 2010 on Lantana sp. (Verbenaceae); Provincia de Sánchez Ramírez: La Soledad, 27 August 2009 on Citrus limon (Rutaceae) and 11 November 2008 on C. sinensis.

Remarks— Specimens from C. limon, Lantana sp. and M. esculenta fit group B (spermatheca with an oval vesicle bearing a distal stipe), whereas the others seem to fit group F (spermatheca with no visible vesicle) of Beard et al. (2012).

Brevipalpus trinidadensis Baker

Brevipalpus trinidadensis Baker, 1949: 381

Collection sites —Provincia de María Trinidad Sánchez: La Palmita, 22 December 2010 on Lantana sp. (Verbenaceae).

Raoiella indica Hirst

Raoiella indica Hirst, 1924: 522

Collection sites —Provincia de Santiago: Banegas, 13 December 2010, on C. nucifera (Arecaceae); Provincia de María Trinidad Sánchez: Colorado, August 2009, El Aguacate, 9 June 2010 and Los Yayales, 24 August 2009 on C. nucifera; Provincia de Duarte: Jobobán, 10 August 2009 on C. nucifera; Provincia de Espaillat: Las Rosas, 11 March 2010, on Musa AAB local cultivar (Musaceae).

Tenuipalpus annonae De Leon

Tenuipalpus annonae De Leon, 1957: 91.

Collection sites —Provincia de María Trinidad Sánchez: La Ceja, 7 December 2010, on Dioscorea sp. (Dioscoreaceae); Provincia de Sánchez Ramírez: La Soledad, 16 December 2010, on Synsepalum dulcificum (Sapotaceae) and C. limon (Rutaceae).

Notes

Published as part of Martínez, Leocadia Sánchez, Flechtmann, Carlos H. W. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2014, Plant mites of the Dominican Republic, with a description of a new species of Petrobia (Tetranychina) Wainstein, 1960 (Acari, Prostigmata, Tetranychidae) and a key to the species of this subgenus, pp. 547-560 in Zootaxa 3846 (4) on pages 548-549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/226073

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Biodiversity

Family
Tenuipalpidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Beard, J., Ochoa, R., Bauchan, G., Trice, M., Redford, A., Walters, T. & Mitter, C. (2012) Flat Mites of the World. Edition 2. Identification Technology Program, CPHST, PPQ, APHIS, USDA, Fort Collins, CO. Available from: http: // idtools. org / id / mites / flatmites (accessed 29 April 2014)
  • Baker, E. W. (1949) The genus Brevipalpus (Acarina: Pseudoleptidae). The American Midland Naturalist, 42 (2), 350 - 402. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 2422013