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

Eraky, Sayed Ali; Mohamed, Azza Abdelgawad; Ezz El–Dein, Seham; El-Gepaly, Hosam

doi:10.21608/ajesa.2020.180881

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

Document Type : Original research articles

Authors

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

² Shandaweel Agricultural Research Station, plant protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center,Egypt

³ Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

10.21608/ajesa.2020.180881

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.

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