Tetranychus ludeni Zacher 1913
Description
Aedeagus bends dorsad; aedeagal knob without a posterior projection, anterior projection small and acuminate; knob and shaft axis parallel (Figure 5 C). Proximal pair of duplex setae on tarsus I almost in a straight line with tactile setae.
Specimens examined: Many individuals available collected on Physalis heterophylla (Solanaceae) growing in a flower bed in Kangemi, Nairobi (S01°15.984'; E036°45.810') and on Bidens pilosa (Asteraceae) in Runda (S01°13.470'; E036°48.050') Nairobi.
Remark: This species is widespread world-wide and occurs on a wide range of host plants. It was first described on Cucurbita sp. and Salvia splendens from Germany (Zacher, 1913). Its first report in Kenya was on Chrysanthemum sp. (Asteraceae) from an unknown locality (Jeppson et al., 1975).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tetranychidae
- Genus
- Tetranychus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Prostigmata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Zacher
- Species
- ludeni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tetranychus ludeni Zacher, 1913 sec. Toroitich, Ueckermann, Theron & Knapp, 2009
References
- Zacher, F. (1913) Untersuchungen uber Spinnmilben. Mitteillungen der Kaiserlichen Biologischen Anstalt fur Land- und Forstwirtschaft, 14, 37 - 41.
- Jeppson, L. R., Keifer, H. H. & Baker, E. W. (1975) Mites injurious to economic plants. University of California Press, Berkeley, xxiv + 614 pp.