South American spider mites: New hosts and localities
1 Universidade de Brasília, UNB, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Campus Universitário Darcy
Ribeiro, ICC Sul, Sala AT-159, Asa Norte, 70910-900, Brasília-DF, Brazil; Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France
2 Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Laboratório de Quarentena Vegetal, Parque Estação Biológica, W5 Norte
Final, Caixa Postal 02372, 70.770-900 Brasília-DF, Brazil
3 CNPq Researcher, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ), Universidade de São Paulo, Cx. Postal 09,
13.418-900, Piracicaba-SP, Brazil
Abstract
In order to contribute to taxonomic information on Tetranychid mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) in South America, surveys were conducted in Brazil (15 States and the Federal District) and Uruguay (one Department); 550 samples of 120 plant species were collected. Tetranychid mite infestations were confirmed in 204 samples, and 22 species belonging to seven genera of the Bryobiinae and Tetranychinae subfamilies were identified on 58 different host plants. Thirty-six new plant hosts were found in Brazil, South America, and worldwide for the following species: Eutetranychus banksi (McGregor); Mononychellus tanajoa (Bondar); Oligonychus anonae Paschoal; O. mangiferus (Rahman and Sapra); Tetranychus bastosi Tuttle, Baker and Sales; T. desertorum Banks, 1900, T. evansi Baker and Pritchard; T. ludeni Zacher; T. mexicanus (McGregor); T. neocaledonicus André; and T. urticae Koch. Four new localities in Brazil were reported for Eotetranychus tremae De Leon; O. anonae; Panonychus ulmi (Koch); and T. gloveri Baker and Pritchard.
Keywords: Eurytetranychini, Hystrichonychini, neotropical region, systematics, taxonomy, Tetranychini
Correspondence:
a renatasm@cenargen.embrapa.br,
b navia@cenargen.embrapa.br,
c irdiniz@unb.br,
d chwflech@esalq.usp.br, *Corresponding author
Received: 16 September 2010 | Accepted: 14 November 2010 | Published: 18 September 2011
Copyright: This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed.
ISSN: 1536-2442 | Volume 11, Number 121
Mendonça RS, Navia D, Diniz IR, Flechtmann CHW. 2011. South American spider mites: New hosts and localities. Journal of Insect Science 11:121 available online: insectscience.org/11.121
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