Oligonychus coniferarum (McGregor)

Paratetranychus coniferarum McGregor, 1950:338 .

Oligonychus coniferarum (McGregor), Pritchard and Baker, 1955:328 –329. Oligonychus (Oligonychus) coniferarum (McGregor), n. comb. Tuttle & Baker (1968): 118.

This is a new record from India and the Asian continent. The aedeagus has a short and caudoventrally directed blunt tip at an angle. This species belongs to the ununguis (Pritchard & Baker 1955).

Specimens examined. Three females and six males: Botanical garden, GKVK, Bangalore, January 2013, ex. Cupressus sp., coll. Mahran Zeity (AINP1160) ; two females and four males: NBFGR campus, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh; February 2014, ex. Thuja sp., coll. N. Srinivasa (AINP1446)