Tarsonemus (Tarsonemus) confusus Ewing, 1939

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Tarsonemus (Tarsonemus) confusus Ewing

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Tarsonemus confusus Ewing ; Beer; Smiley; Kaliszewski

Material Examined (n=5; 5 ♀♀) — 1♀ (29°24 ′ 30.77 ″ N, 82°10 ′ 16.13 ″ W, 19 m, 11 August 2016, Arapaho, Organic Farm); 1♀ (31°22 ′ 49.19 ″ N, 83°19 ′ 8.57 ″ W, 89 m, 18 August 2016, Ouachita, Conventional Farm); 2♀♀ (30°54 ′ 18.31 ″ N, 82°38 ′ 51.06 ″ W, 46 m, 18

August 2016 Kiowa Conventional Farm); 1♀ (29°32 ′ 35.80 ″ N, 82°5 ′ 7.34 ″ W, 28 m, 28 June

2016, Ouachita, Organic Farm).

Comments — Tarsonemus confusus occurs on many types of plants in Canada, Byelorussia, Egypt, China, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Germany, Korea, Netherlands, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Turkey ( Lin and Zhang 2002), Hungary ( Ripka et al. 2005) and Brazil ( Lofego et al. 2005). It was also previously recorded from multiple states in the US on various plants including Rubus

sp. ( Lin and Zhang 2002).