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Issue: Vol. 1894 No. 1: 8 Oct. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-10-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1894.1.3
Page range: 42–52
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 2

One new genus and four new species of Phyllocoptinae (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from Fujian Province, southeastern China

Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
Acari Eriophyidae eriophyoid mites taxonomy host relationships

Abstract

One new genus and four new species of the Phyllocoptinae from Fujian Province, southeastern China are described and illustrated. They are Fujianacarus gen. nov. and Fujianacarus wisterianis sp. nov. on Wisteria sinensis (Sims) Sweet (Fabaceae); Epitrimerus buxsinica sp. nov. on Buxus sinica (Rehd. et Wils.) Cheng (Buxaceae); Shevtchenkella camelliae sp. nov. on Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Ktze. (Theaceae) and Jutarus dolichocladae sp. nov. on Bambusa dolichoclada Hayata (Poaceae). All species are vagrant on the undersurface of leaves, causing no apparent damage to the host plant.

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