Description of four new species, two new records, and mitochondrial COI gene of eriophyoid mites from Nanning, China (Acari: Eriophyoidea)

Abstract

Four new species and two new records of eriophyoid mite species from Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China are described and illustrated: Disella chromolaena sp. nov. infesting Chromolaena odorata (Linnaeus) R. M. King & H. Rob. (Asteraceae); Abacarus oxalis sp. nov. from Oxalis corniculata L. (Oxalidaceae); Tetra radermachera sp. nov. infesting Radermachera sinica (Hance) Hemsl. (Bignoniaceae); Tegonotus microcarpae sp. nov. from Ficus macrocarpa L. f. 'Golden Leaves'. (Moraceae); Aculops morindae Ghosh & Chakrabarati, 1989 rec. nov. from Paederia foetida L. (Rubiaceae); Shevtchenkella longitubercula Mo, Tan & Wang, 2017 rec. nov. from Dimocarpus longan Lour. (Sapindaceae). All mites are vagrants causing no apparent damage to their host plants. We provided mitochondrial COI sequences for Abacarus oxalis sp. nov. (GenBank accession numbers OQ571329 and OQ571330), Aculops morindae Ghosh & Chakrabarati, 1989 rec. nov. (OQ571325–OQ571328), and Tegonotus microcarpa sp. nov. (OQ571323 and OQ571324). A list of eriophyoid mites known from Guangxi University is given.

Three new species of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from Dabashan Nature Reserve, Chongqin City, China

“…The subfamily Phyllocoptinae was established by Nalepa (1892) with the type genus Phyllocoptes Nalepa, 1887. Up to 2023, 126 genera and 756 species of subfamily Phyllocoptinae have been recorded in China, of which 42 genera and 275 species belong to the tribe Phyllocoptini; 31 genera and 365 species belong to the tribe Anthocoptini; Among them, 43 species belong to the genus Epitrimerus Nalepa, 1898, 6 species belong to the genus Vittacus Keifer,1969(Han et al 2022Hao et al 2023;Liu et al 2022Liu et al , 2023Qin et al 2021Qin et al , 2022aQin et al , 2022bRen et al 2023aRen et al , 2023bRuan et al 2023;Wang et al 2021;Wei & Kuang 1997;Xue & Lu 2022;Xue et al 2005Xue et al , 2010Xue et al , 2013Zhang et al 2022). The most obvious character of this genus Vittacus is: dorsal opisthosoma flat with transverse thickened bands; opisthosoma typically divided into broad dorsal annuli, and narrow, microtuberculate ventral annuli.…”