Brevishieldophyes glochidionae (Chakrabarti & Pandit, 2009) Chakrabarti & Pandit, 2009

Chakrabarti, Samiran, Pandit, Ramkrishna & Sur, Surajit, 2019, New genera, a new species, and a key to the genera of Ashieldophyinae (Acari, Eriophyoidea) from India, ZooKeys 843, pp. 39-49 : 42-43

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.843.29078

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/33D1FFB7-997E-495E-AD21-EF1EDB27CB2B

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Brevishieldophyes glochidionae (Chakrabarti & Pandit, 2009)
status

comb. n.

Brevishieldophyes glochidionae (Chakrabarti & Pandit, 2009) comb. n.

Ashieldophyes glochidionae Chakrabarti & Pandit, 2009, International Journal of Acarology, 15:163-164.

Diagnosis.

Body fusiform; pedipalp genual seta d present; prodorsal shield small and sickle shaped; scapular setae sc absent; legs with all usual setae; solenidion ω knobbed; opisthosoma with equal number of smooth dorsal and ventral semiannuli; setae 1b absent.

Specimens examined.

India: West Bengal: Jalpaiguri, Lataguri forest, 15.X.2004, many females and nymphs from G. multiloculare , coll. R Pandit. coll. nos. 1275-1279/45/2004. Type material of A. glochidionae Meghalaya: Burnihat, 18.X.1985, many females and nymphs, from C. glomerata , coll. B Das, coll. nos. 967-971/61/1985.

Distribution.

India: West Bengal & Meghalaya.

Relation to the host plant.

The mites inhabit the under surface of leaves as vagrants without showing symptoms of damage to the host plant.

Remarks.

The original report of B. glochidionae from G. multiloculare needs further confirmation because this mite species and other two Ashieldophyinae have been collected subsequently from plants of the genus Casearia ( Salicaceae ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

SuperFamily

Eriophyoidea

Family

Eriophyidae

Genus

Brevishieldophyes