Description of a new species of Acotyledon Oudemans (Acari: Acaridae) feeding on eggs of the Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), with a method for determining sex in deutonymphal stages | ||
Acarines: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Acarology | ||
Article 1, Volume 14, Issue 1 - Serial Number 14, 2020, Pages 1-12 PDF (935.38 K) | ||
Document Type: Original research articles | ||
DOI: 10.21608/ajesa.2020.180881 | ||
Authors | ||
Sayed Ali Eraky1; Azza Abdelgawad Mohamed2; Seham Ezz El–Dein3; Hosam El-Gepaly3 | ||
1Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||
2Shandaweel Agricultural Research Station, plant protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center,Egypt | ||
3Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt | ||
Abstract | ||
A new species, Acotyledon hookisetoses sp. nov. (Acari: Acaridae), collected from the stock colony of Sitotroga cerealella reared on wheat grains, is described, and illustrated from adults and deutonymphs. Sex-specific morphological differences at the deutonymphal stage are reported and discussed. | ||
Keywords | ||
Taxonomy; Acaridae; Astigmatina; immature stages; stored product | ||
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