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Issue: Vol. 79 No. 1: 11 Oct. 2002
Type: Article
Published: 2002-10-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.79.1.1
Page range: 1–6
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 37

New species of phytoseiid mites from Mozambique and Malawi

Biological Control Center for Africa, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin
Departamento de Entomologia, Fitopatologia e Zoologia Agrícola, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Piracicaba-SP, Brazil
Biological Control Center for Africa, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin Author for correspondence (E-mail: r.hanna@cgiar.org; Phone +229 35 01 88; Fax +229 35 05 56; Postal address: IITA-Benin, c/o L. W. Lambourn, 26 Dingwall Road, Croydon, CR9 3EE)
Acari Phytoseiidae Typhlodromalus parcidentatus Typhlodromus malawiensis taxanomy

Abstract

Two new mite species of the family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) are described from southern Africa: Typhlodromalus parcidentatus n. sp. from Mozambique and Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) malawiensis n. sp. from Malawi.

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