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Issue: Vol. 4236 No. 1: 22 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.1.10
Page range: 172–182
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Two new genera and two new species of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from North Bengal, India

Post-Graduate Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar College, 39 Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata 700006, India.
Post-Graduate Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar College, 39 Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata 700006, India.
Post-Graduate Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar College, 39 Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata 700006, India.
Post-Graduate Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar College, 39 Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata 700006, India.
Acari Eriophyoidea new genus new species Propeaciota genusetosis Spinaephyes alnus India

Abstract

Two new genera and two new species of eriophyoid mites viz., Propeaciota genusetosis n. gen. and n. sp. infesting Acer sp. (Aceraceae) and Spinaephyes alnus n. gen. and n. sp. infesting Alnus nepalensis D. Don (Betulaceae) are described in the tribe Tegonotini (Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae) from North Bengal, India. Aciota secundum Flechtmann et al.1995 is re-assigned (n. comb.) to Propeaciota. Relationships of the new genera with other eriophyoid genera are discussed.

 

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