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Cecidophyopsis hendersoni

  • 1. Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China Landcare Research, 231 Morrin Road, St. Johns, Auckland 1072, New Zealand Corresponding author: zhangz @ landcareresearch. co. nz

Description

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni (Keifer, 1954)

Cecidophyes hendersoni Keifer, 1954: 123–124.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni; Keifer, 1959: 275.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni; Hall, 1967: 644.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni; Flechtmann & Davis, 1971: 8.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni; Petanovic, 1997: 213.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni; Labanowski, 1998: 7.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni; Ramezani et al., 2006: 139.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni; Ripka, 2008: 143.

Material examined. 3 females (slide 09/2004/462), from Yucca elephantipes (Agavaceae), Auckland, New Zealand, 20 January 2004, coll. S. Wilson; 3 females (slide NPPRL ref. 09/2004/689), from Y. elephantipes (Agavaceae), Rentokil Plant Nursery, Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 January 2004; 30 females and 2 males (3 slides NPPRL ref. 09/2005/4193), from Yucca sp. (Agavaceae), Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 July 2005, coll. A. Reed. Specimens in PANZ.

Host. Yucca glauca, Y. elephantipes (Agavaceae).

Relation to host. Vagrant; mites cause leaf deformation, with affected fronds dusted with whitish powder.

Dsitribution. New Zealand (Auckland), USA (Kansas, Georgia, California), Serbia, Poland, Iran, Hungary.

Remarks. An interesting abnormal development of setae was observed in one specimen collected on Yucca sp. in Mangere, Auckland. The two setae on coxal plate I on one side form a duplex (Fig. 3B).

Notes

Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2008, New Zealand Eriophyoidea (Acari: Prostigmata): an update with descriptions of one new genus and six new species, pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 1962 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1962.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5241647

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Eriophyidae
Genus
Cecidophyopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Keifer
Species
hendersoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cecidophyopsis hendersoni (Keifer, 1954) sec. Xue & Zhang, 2008

References

  • Keifer, H. H. (1954) Eriophyid Studies XXII. Bulletin of the California Department of Agriculture, 43, 121 - 131.
  • Keifer, H. H. (1959) Eriophyid Studies XXVI. Bulletin of the California Department of Agriculture, 47, 271 - 281.
  • Hall, C. C. Jr. (1967) The Eriophyoidea of Kansas. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 47, 601 - 675.
  • Flechtmann, C. H. W. & Davis, R. (1971) Seven eriophyid mites new to Georgia including Rhyncaphytoptus nigrans n. sp. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society, 6, 7 - 9.
  • Petanovic R. (1997) Allochthonous mite species (Acari) in the fauna of Yugoslavia. Zastita Bilja, 48, 211 - 224.
  • Labanowski, G. (1998) The yucca eriophyid. Ochrona Roslin, 42, 7.
  • Ramezani, L., Mosadegh, M. S., Shisheh B. P. (2006) The fauna of superfamily Eriophyoidea of Khuzetan Province. The Scientific Journal of Agriculture (SJA), 29, 139 - 149.
  • Ripka, G. (2008) Additional data to the eriophyoid fauna of Hungary (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea). Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica, 43, 143 - 161.