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, Page 1-12 PDF (935.38 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original research articles | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ajesa.2020.180881 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Sayed Ali Eraky1; Azza Abdelgawad Mohamed 2; Seham Ezz El–Dein3; Hosam El-Gepaly 3 | ||||
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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