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Tetranychidae

Description

Tetranychidae

Eutetranychus banksi (McGregor)

Tetranychus banksi McGregor, 1914: 358.

Eutetranychus banksi, Pritchard & Baker, 1955: 115.

Tetranychus rusti McGregor, 1917: 582 (synonymy according to Pritchard & Baker, 1955). Collection sites —Provincia de Santiago: La Rotonda, 26 February 2010, on C. limon (Rutaceae); Provincia de María Trinidad Sánchez: La Ceja, 7 December 2010, on Amaranthus sp. (Amaranthaceae).

Mononychellus caribbeanae (McGregor)

Tetranychus caribbeanae McGregor, 1950: 283.

Eotetranychus caribbeanae, Pritchard & Baker, 1955: 147.

Mononychellus caribbeanae, Wainstein, 1971: 587.

Collection sites —Provincia de Sánchez Ramírez: El Charco, 16 December 2010, on M. esculenta; Provincia de La Vega: Jamo, 28 October 2008, on M. esculenta; Provincia de Espaillat: Jababa, 10 May 2010, on M. esculenta; Provincia de Santiago: La Rotonda, 26 February 2010, on M. esculenta; Provincia de María Trinidad Sánchez: La Ceja, 7 December 2010, on Malpighia emarginata (Malpighiaceae); Provincia de La Vega: Medina, 26 January 2011, on M. esculenta and Sechium edule (Cucurbitaceae) and Los Dajaos, 19 January 2011 on M. esculenta and S. edule.

Tetranychus gloveri Banks

Tetranychus gloveri Banks, 1900: 76

Collection sites —Provincia de María Trinidad Sánchez: La Ceja, 7 December 2010, on Amaranthus sp.

Tetranychus urticae Koch

Tetranychus urticae Koch, 1836: 10.

Tetranychus telarius (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonymy according to Smith & Baker (1968): 1080). Acarus cinnabarinus Boisduval, 1867: 88 (synonymy according to Dupont (1979): 302). Collection sites —Provincia de Santiago: Banegas, 13 December 2010, on Jatropha sp. (Euphorbiaceae), Musa AAB local cultivar, Sida sp. (Malvaceae) and Passiflora foetida (Passifloraceae); La Rotonda, 26 August 2010, on Jatropha sp. and M. esculenta; Villa Tabacalera on Jatropha sp. and Solanum lycopersicon (Solanaceae); Provincia de Espaillat: El Aguacate Abajo and San Luis, 10 March 2010, on M. esculenta; Provincia de Sánchez Ramírez: La Soledad, 11 November 2008 and 27 August 2009, on C. limon; Los Transformadores, 16 December 2010, on C. limon; Provincia de La Vega: Pontón, 31 August 2008 and 23 December 2010, on Abelmoschus esculentus (Malvaceae); Provincia de La Vega: La Joya, 28 December 2010 and 18 January 2011, on Fragaria vesca (Rosaceae); Los Dajaos, 19 January 2011, on F. vesca; Medina, 26 January 2011, on F. vesca, S. edule and M. esculenta; Provincia de María Trinidad Sánchez: La Ceja, Arenosito and La Amarga, 7 December 2010, on Artocarpus altilis (Moraceae), Amaranthus sp., Ipomoea batatas (Convolvulaceae), Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae), Xanthosoma sp (Araceae), Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae) and unidentified plant of the natural vegetation.

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 page 549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/226073

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Prostigmata
Family
Tetranychidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Pritchard, A. E. & Baker, E. W. (1955) A revision of the spider mite family Tetranychidae. Memoirs of the Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 2, 1 - 472.
  • McGregor, E. A. (1950) Mites of the family Tetranychidae. The American Midland Naturalist, 44 (2), 257 - 420. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 2421963
  • Tuttle, D. M. & Baker, E. W. (1968) Spider mites of southwestern United States and a review of the family Tetranychidae. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 143 pp.
  • Dupont, L. M. (1979) On gene flow between Tetranychus urticae Koch, 1836 and Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval) Doudreaux, 1956 (Acari: Tetranychidae): synonymy between the two species. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 25 (3), 297 - 303. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1570 - 7458.1979. tb 02882. x