<p class="Body"><strong>A new species of <em>Brevipalpus </em>(Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from the Azores Islands, with remarks on the <em>B.</em></strong><strong> </strong><strong>cuneatus species group</strong></p>

Abstract

Brevipalpus contains about 290 species, some of which are considered of economic importance. In spite of their agricultural importance, the species diversity is scarcely known in several regions around the world, notably on wild plants. In this work a new species collected on an endemic ivy of the Azores Archipelago, Hedera azorica Carrière (Araliaceae), is described based on an integrative approach using morphological traits of the adults, obtained through electron and light microscopy, and molecular characters based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted in order to produce reliable phylogenetic placement of the new species, which is tentatively classified in the B. portalis species group. Morphological similarities between the new species and B. cuneatus Canestrini and Fanzago point out to some inconsistencies in the current morphological classification of Brevipalpus species, especially in the definition of the B. cuneatus group, herein discussed.

Damage and spatiotemporal dynamics of the Ngaio flat mite, Brevipalpus ferraguti (Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae), with observations on the development of the female insemination system

“…Di Palma et al (2020) investigated its ultrastructural morphology in five Brevipalpus species (B. californicus, B. obovatus, B. papayensis, Brevipalpus tuberellus De Leon, and B. yothersi). They confirmed that the shape of the seminal receptacle is species-specific, stressing thus its importance as a key feature in Brevipalpus taxonomy and systematics, as it was previously suggested (Beard et al 2012(Beard et al , 2015Navia et al 2013;Alves et al 2019), and that females belonging to the same species and population may exhibit developed or undeveloped seminal receptacles. They also wondered whether those differences in the level of development can be attributed to environmental factors, physiological conditions or the age of females.…”

Flat mites (Tenuipalpidae) from Bahia state, Northeastern Brazil - a checklist including new records and an illustrated key to species

“…Records in Bahia. Alves et al 2019 Remarks. All the specimens of B. tuberellus included in the molecular phylogenetic analysis of Alves et al (2019) and identified in the present study were collected from the municipality of Ilhéus by Kaélem S. Sousa.…”

IIdentification, characterization, and evolutionary features of >i<Brevipalpus>/i<-transmitted viruses causing citrus leprosis disease

“…Recognition of Brevipalpus species is difficult due to large intraspecies morphological variations Dos Santos Alves et al, 2019). Recent studies have revealed inconsistencies between the conventional morphological descriptions used for the mite classification and the molecular-based phylogenetic characterization based on molecular markers of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene, and even further, they have discovered the presence of cryptic species .…”