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Research Project: Plant Feeding Mite (Acari) Systematics

Location: Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Title: Reinstatement of Metatarsonemus Attiah (Acari: Tarsonemidae), with description of a new species, redefinition of the genus and a key to the world species

Author
item LOFEGO, ANTONIO - SAO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY (UNESP)
item CAVALCANTE, A. - SAO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY (UNESP)
item DEMITE, PETERSON - SAO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY (UNESP)
item REZENDE, J. - SAO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY (UNESP)
item Ochoa, Ronald - Ron
item DE MORAES, GILBERTO - SAO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY (UNESP)

Submitted to: Zootaxa
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/5/2019
Publication Date: 12/14/2019
Citation: Lofego, A., Cavalcante, A.C., Demite, P.R., Rezende, J.M., Ochoa, R., De Moraes, G.J. 2019. Reinstatement of Metatarsonemus Attiah (Acari: Tarsonemidae), with description of a new species, redefinition of the genus and a key to the world species. Zootaxa. 4711(2):307-329.

Interpretive Summary: Tarsonemid mites include more than 40 genera, some cause damage to agricultural crops and ornamental plants, others are associated with insects (beetles, true bugs), fungi, bacteria and soil. This article descrived a new species of a white mite and comparared with other species known in its group. This study will be important to plant protection officers, ecologists, entomologists, biologists and Agriculture scientists.

Technical Abstract: A new species, Metatarsonemus caissara Lofego & Cavalcante sp. nov., is described based on females and males collected on Eugenia umbelliflora O. Berg. (Myrtaceae) from Atlantic forest areas of São Paulo State, Brazil. Metatarsonemus Attiah is redefined, taking into account apomorphic characters that became apparent with the examination of the new species herein described, in addition to specimens of M. simplicissimus Athiah, M. megasolenidii Lofego & Ochoa, and females and males of three undescribed species. A dichotomous key is provided to help in the separation of the world species so far described.