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Issue: Vol. 2067 No. 1: 8 Apr. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-04-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2067.1.4
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 21

Two new species of eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyidae) from India

Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India-110012
Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India-110012
Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India-110012
Acari Taxonomy Cosetacus Cordia dichotoma Acalitus Salvadora persica India

Abstract

Two new species of eriophyid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) viz. Cosetacus sharadi n. sp., collected from leaf erineum on Cordia dichotoma (Boraginaceae), and Acalitus delhiensis n. sp., collected from leaf erineum on Salvadora persica (Salvadoraceae), are described from India. Cosetacus sharadi has divided feather claw, each branch comprising of 4–5 rays, shield with median line present from rear to mid, admedian lines parallel to median line till mid, then bulging out meeting at the anterior end, submedian lines present from anterior to mid, epigynium ribbed in 2 ranks, accessory seta absent, antapical seta present. Acalitus delhiensis has 7 rayed simple feather claw, shield with median line present in rear to mid, admedian and submedian lines branched, epigynium coarsely granulated, accessory seta and antapical seta absent.

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