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Issue: Vol. 4237 No. 1: 27 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.6
Page range: 112–130
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Two new eriophyoid mite species (Trombidiformes: Eriophyoidea) from the cocoa tree, and a note on Shevtchenkella biseta (Nalepa)

Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, 45662-900, Ilhéus, BA, Brazil
Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, 70.770-900, Brasília, DF, Brazil CNPq-Brazil Researcher.
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, 45662-900, Ilhéus, BA, Brazil
Instituto Agroforestal Mediterráneo. Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera, s/n 46022, Valencia, Spain
Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, C. Postal 9, 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil CNPq-Brazil Researcher
Acari Diptilomiopidae Eriophyidae Theobroma cacao L. Neotropical plant quarantine gnathosoma interlocking apparatus

Abstract

Two new eriophyoid mite species are described from the cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao L. (Malvaceae) – the Diptilomiopidae Davisella trevisani n. sp. Rodrigues, Navia & Oliveira, from Brazil; and the Eriophyidae Tetra theobromae n. sp. Rodrigues, Navia & Oliveira, from Costa Rica. The new Davisella species presents an enlarged subcylindrical tubercle bearing pedipalp genual seta d, a novel structure for eriophyoid mites; its functional morphology was discussed. The new Tetra species is the third in this genus described from plants of the Malvaceae. A closer look at Shevtchenkella biseta (Nalepa), described from the Malvaceae Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L., showed its taxonomic assignment to the Phytoptidae, Sierraphytoptinae and raised a hypothesis on its synonymy.

 

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