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Issue: Vol. 5471 No. 2: 18 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.2.7
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A new species of mite in the genus Nenteria (Uropodina, Trematuridae), with a key to the Egyptian species

Vegetable and Aromatic Plant Mites Department; Plant Protection Research Institute; Agricultural Research Centre; 12611 Dokii; Giza; Egypt
Zoology and Agricultural Nematology Department; Faculty of Agriculture; Cairo University; Giza; Egypt
Applied Centre of Entomonematodes; Faculty of Agriculture; Cairo University; Giza; Egypt
Acari Systematic Mesostigmata IPM Egypt morphology description

Abstract

We describe a new species of mite in the genus Nenteria Oudemans, collected from the Red Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Oliver) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), at Bahariya Oasis, Egypt. Nenteria bahariyaensis n. sp. is the third species from this genus reported from Egypt, after Nenteria hypotrichus El-Borolossy & El-Banhawy, 1995 and N. egypticus (Abo-Shnaf, El-Bishlawy & Allam, 2018). A key to separate those species is provided. This work considers the possibility of using this mite species in integrated control approaches for R. ferrugineus.

 

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