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Issue: Vol. 4061 No. 5: 11 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.5
Page range: 553–568
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Eriophyoid mites from Eastern India: description of three new species (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea)

Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur - 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India.
Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur - 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India.
Acari taxonomy eriophyoid fauna Eriophyidae Diptilomiopidae India

Abstract

Three new eriophyoid mite species, namely Dichopelmus puncti n. sp. (Eriophyidae) from cogan grass, Imperata cylindrica (Poaceae); Calacarus kalyaniensis n. sp. (Eriophyidae) from Siam weed, Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) and Neorhynacus bidhanae n. sp. (Diptilomiopidae) from Croton caudatus (Euphorbiaceae), are described and illustrated from West Bengal, India. The new species are vagrants on the leaves of their respective host plants with no visible damage observed. Keys to the known species of Dichopelmus and Neorhynacus are provided along with a checklist of eriophyoid mites species present in West Bengal.

 

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