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Issue: Vol. 3025 No. 1: 14 Sep. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-09-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3025.1.3
Page range: 51–58
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Abacarus (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) damaging sugarcane, Sacharrum officinarum L., from Costa Rica—the first eriophyoid mite described with a tibial seta on leg II DENISE NAVIA (Brazil), CARLOS H. W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil), EVERT E. LINDQUIST (Canada) & HUGO AGUILAR (Costa Rica)

Laboratório de Quarentena Vegetal, EMBRAPA Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, C. Postal 02372, 70.770-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil
CNPq-Brazil-Researcher,Universidade de São Paulo– ESALQ. Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia. C. Postal 9, 13418-900 Piracicaba. SP, Brazil
Invertebrate Biodiversity, Research Branch, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Laboratorio de Acarología, Centro de Investigaciones en Protección de Cultivos (CIPROC), Escuela de Agronomía, Universidad de Costa Rica, Apartado 2060, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica
Acari Eriophyoidea Phyllocoptini Saccharum officinarum L. Poaceae systematics phylogeny Central America Neotropical biosecurity

Abstract

A new species of eriophyoid mite, belonging in the genus Abacarus Keifer (Eriophyidae), causing damage to sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum L. (Poaceae), in Costa Rica is illustrated and described. Abacarus doctus n. sp. is the only eriophyoid species recorded so far with a tibial seta (l¢) on the second pair of legs, an unexpected characteristic observed for the first time in the superfamily Eriophyoidea. Remarks on the phylogenetic and taxonomical aspects related to the presence of this seta are presented. Damage symptoms caused by this mite are presented as well as a key for Abacarus species described from sugarcane. In addition, the need to apply biosecurity procedures during sugarcane germplasm exchange to avoid dissemination of the new mite species is discussed.

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