Phyllocoptruta platyclada Xue, Song, Amring & Hong, 2007

Xue, Xiao-Feng, Han, Xiao, Song, Zi-Wei & Hong, Xiao-Yue, 2012, Eriophyoid mite fauna of Shaanxi Province, China, with descriptions of five new species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) 3292, Zootaxa 3292 (1), pp. 1-71 : 38

Phyllocoptruta platyclada Xue, Song, Amring & Hong, 2007

Phyllocoptruta platyclada Xue, Song, Amring & Hong, 2007: 341–342 .

Type material. 8 females and 1 male (slide number NJAUAcariEri254), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Taibai Mountain, Mei County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 34°01'51' N, 107°48'36' E, elevation 2810m, 1 September 2004, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue & Zi-Wei Song.

New material. 8 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri214), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Louguantai, Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 34°03'54' N, 108°19'22' E, elevation 500m, 31 August 2004, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue and Zi-Wei Song; 8 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri452), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Wudu, Longnan City, Gansu Province, P. R. China, 33°23'43' N, 104°55'48' E, elevation 1214m, 10 September 2005, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue & Zi-Wei Song; 6 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri659), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Yan' an City, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 10 July 2006, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue; 10 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri308), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Huayang Town, Yang County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 33°35'23' N, 107°32'26' E, elevation 1083m, 8 August 2005, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue & Zi-Wei Song; 8 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri380), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Heihe, Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 33°54'30' N, 108°00'34' E, elevation 900m, 13 August 2005, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue and Zi- Wei Song; 6 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri381), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Heihe, Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 33°54'30' N, 108°00'34' E, elevation 900m, 13 August 2005, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue and Zi-Wei Song; 8 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri397), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Cuihua Mountain, Xi' an City, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 34°59'40' N, 109°00'04' E, elevation 901m, 15 August 2005, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue & Zi-Wei Song; 8 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri439), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Wen County, Gansu Province, P. R. China, 32°56'43' N, 104°40'27' E, elevation 950m, 8 September 2005, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue & Zi-Wei Song; 8 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri978), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Linzhi, Tibet Autonomous Region, P. R. China, 29°37'01' N, 94°42'00' E, elevation 4247m, 14 August 2007, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue, Zhen Wang & Zi-Wei Song; 3 females (slide number NJAUAcariEriS5), from Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ), Baohua Mountain, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China, 32°08'41' N, 119°05'19' E, elevation 53m, 27 August 2008, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue and Zhen Wang.

Host. Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco ( Cupressaceae ).

Relation to host. Vagrant.

Distribution. China (Gansu, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Tibet).