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Research Project: Systematics of Acari and Hemiptera: Plant Pests, Predators, and Disease Vectors

Location: Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Title: Notes on the presence of Brevipalpus recki and Cenopalpus longirostris [Tetranychoidea: Tenuipalpidae] associated with Quercus pubescens in southern Italy

Author
item DE GIOSA, MARCELLO - Bari University
item DE LILLO, E - Dipartimento Di Scienze E Tecnologie Ambientali
item Ochoa, Ronald - Ron

Submitted to: Acarologia
Publication Type: Research Notes
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/15/2021
Publication Date: 1/7/2022
Citation: De Giosa, M., De Lillo, E., Ochoa, R. 2022. Notes on the presence of Brevipalpus recki and Cenopalpus longirostris [Tetranychoidea: Tenuipalpidae] associated with Quercus pubescens in southern Italy. Acarologia. 62(1):22-26. https://doi.org/10.24349/tayr-ir00.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24349/tayr-ir00

Interpretive Summary: Flat mites are important agricultural pests on crops, forestry, ornamentals and fruit trees. Their damage and control cost many millions of dollars annually world wide. This article reports the presence of two flat mite species associated with forestry trees in Italy. The new distribution records were included. This study will be important to plant protection officers, extension workers, agriculture scientists, entomologists and forestry industry.

Technical Abstract: During a survey of Tenuipalpidae mites on forestry trees and agricultural crops in five different sites of the Apulian territories (Southern Italy) in 2019, Brevipalpus recki (Livschitz & Mitrofanov) and Cenopalpus longirostris (Livschitz & Mitrofanov) were collected on Quercus pubescens (Willdenow). The authors give an account of the new record of C. longirostris, which was not listed in the Acarological Italian fauna (Bernini et al. 1995), and of the finding of B. recki in the South of Italy, since it was only mentioned by Pegazzano (1975) in the North. Furthermore, the paper lists Q. pubescens as a new host plant species for C. longirostris.