Abstract
Insect and mite galls provide a secondary habitat for arthropods and are sites driving community diversity. Nevertheless, the role of galls on the lifestyle of mites inhabiting them is scarcely investigated. We previously reported that a population of Eotetranychus asiaticus Ehara colonises leaf galls made by the psyllid Trioza cinnamomi (Boselli) larvae on Japanese cinnamon Cinnamomum yabunikkei H. Ohba (Lauraceae) (Saito et al., 2016).
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Saito Y., Lin, J.-Z., Zhang, Y.-X., Ito, K., Liu, Q.-Y. & Chittenden, A.R. (2016) Two new species and four new life types in Tetranychidae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 109, 463–472. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/sav158