A New Genus and New Species of Acarid Mites (Acari: Acaridae) from Soil Under Pomegranate Trees, at Assiut, Upper Egypt

Eraky, Sayed Ali; Abd El-Wahed, N. M.; Abdelgayed, Abdelgayed S.; Ali, A. M.

doi:10.21608/ajesa.2019.164155

A New Genus and New Species of Acarid Mites (Acari: Acaridae) from Soil Under Pomegranate Trees, at Assiut, Upper Egypt

Document Type : Original research articles

Authors

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

² Plant Protec. Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center, Dokkii, 12611, Giza, Egypt

³ Dept. of Plant Protec., Fac. of Agric., Assiut Univ., Assiut, 71526, Egypt

10.21608/ajesa.2019.164155

Abstract

A new genus (Egyptglyphus gen. nov.) and new species (Egyptglyphus oconnori sp. nov.) is described from hypopial nymphs (heteromorphic deutonymphs), collected from soil under pomegranate trees, Assiut Governorate, Egypt. Holotype deutonymph and seven paratype deutonymphs are deposited in the Acari collection of Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut Governorate, Egypt. The characterization and description of the new genus and species are given.

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