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Research Project: Plant Feeding Mite (Acari) Systematics

Location: Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Title: Redescription of Tenuipalpus coyacus De Leon (Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae), with a discussion on the ontogeny of leg setae

Author
item CASTRO, E. - Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)
item TASSI, ALINE - Universidad De Sao Paulo
item BARROSO, GEOVANNY S. - Universidade De Sao Paulo
item DE MORAES, GILBERTO - Universidade De Sao Paulo
item Ochoa, Ronald - Ron

Submitted to: International Journal of Acarology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/13/2019
Publication Date: 8/1/2019
Citation: Castro, E.B., Tassi, A.D., Barroso, G.P., De Moraes, G.J., Ochoa, R. 2019. Redescription of Tenuipalpus coyacus De Leon (Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae), with a discussion on the ontogeny of leg setae. International Journal of Acarology. 45(5):280-295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01647954.2019.1621932

Interpretive Summary: Flat mites cause severe damage to agricultural crops, fruit trees and ornamentals around the world, annually costing many millions of dollars. This article redescribes a Tenuipalpid mite based on type material deposited at the National Insect and Mite Collection, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH), located at Beltsville, Maryland, USA. This species was compared with other collected specimens from Brazil. This study will be important to plant protection officers, extension workers, agriculture scientists, entomologists and forestry professionals.

Technical Abstract: Tenuipalpus coyacus De Leon, 1957 was described from female, male and deutonymph specimens collected on oil palm (Arecaceae) from San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico. In this article, we redescribe the female, male and immatures of T. coyacus from type specimens and newly material collected in Brazil, and we include additional novel data (e.g. dorsal and ventral ornamentation, leg chaetotaxy and setal measurements) in a standardized format. In addition, we provide details of the patterns of ontogenetic setal additions for each life stage of this species.