Eotetranychus hirsti Pritchard & Baker, 1955

Classification

Tetranychidae - Tetranychinae - Tetranychini - Eotetranychus

Accepted name

Eotetranychus hirsti Pritchard & Baker, 1955. Pritchard & Baker (1955): 200.

Original description

Tetranychus fici Hirst, 1926 nec Murray 1877. Hirst (1926): 828.

Type host: Ficus carica. Type distribution: India, Pakistan.

Summary

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  • Distribution
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  • Nomenclature and taxonomy

         Tetranychus fici Hirst, 1926 nec Murray 1877. Homonym Hirst (1926): 828. Type host: Ficus carica. Type distribution: India, Pakistan.

         Eotetranychus hirsti Pritchard & Baker, 1955. Replacement name Pritchard & Baker (1955): 200.


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    Original description and illustration literature
    [Original description]

    Hosts (7 plants, 18 references)


    Apocynaceae: Nerium oleander
    Fabaceae: Bauhinia sp. Gupta & Gupta (1994) Gupta & Chatterjee (1997)
    Moraceae: Ficus carica Hirst (1926) Rahman & Sapra (1940a) Georghiou (1959) Nassar & Ghai (1981) Faghih & Mobayen (1993) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Gupta & Chatterjee (1997) Baradaran et al. (2002) Ben-David et al. (2013) Daneshnia & Akrami (2013) Dolatyar et al. (2015) Shakarami & Bazgir (2017) Zeity (2017) Zeity et al. (2017) Ficus racemosa Gupta & Gupta (1994) Gupta & Chatterjee (1997) Ficus religiosa Gupta & Gupta (1978) Ficus semicordata Prasad (1974) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Gupta & Chatterjee (1997) Ficus sp. Gupta (1992)


    Distribution (6 countries, 19 references)


    Oriental: India Hirst (1926) Nassar & Ghai (1981) Gupta (1992) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Gupta (1995) Gupta & Chatterjee (1997) Zeity et al. (2017) Pakistan Rahman & Sapra (1940a) Kazimi & Ghani (1969) Chaudhri et al. (1974)
    Palearctic: Cyprus Georghiou (1959) Iran Faghih & Mobayen (1993) Baradaran et al. (2002) Beyzavi et al. (2013) Daneshnia & Akrami (2013) Dolatyar et al. (2015) Shakarami & Bazgir (2017) Israel and Palestinian Territories Ben-David et al. (2013) Syria Zeity (2017)


    Literature (22 references in chronological order)


    Hirst (1926) Descriptions of new mites including four new species of red spider . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 96 (3): 825-841 [distribution; host; taxononmy]
    Rahman & Sapra (1940a) Mites of the family Tetranychidae from Lyallpur with descriptions of four new species. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Science, Ser. B, 11: 177-196 [distribution; host]
    Pritchard & Baker (1955) A revision of the spider mite family Tetranychidae. Memoirs Series, San Francisco, Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 2: 472 p [taxononmy]
    Georghiou (1959) Plant-feeding mites of Cyprus. FAO Plant Protection Bulletin, 7: 153-160 [distribution; host]
    Kazimi & Ghani (1969) Resume of work on spider mites and their natural enemies in West Pakistan. Pakistan Station Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Rawalpindi: 7 pp [distribution]
    Chaudhri et al. (1974) Taxonomic studies of the mites belonging to the families Tenuipalpidae, Tetranychidae, Tuckerellidae, Caligonellidae, Stigmaeidae and Phytoseiidae - PL-480 Project on mites. Lyallpur, Pakistan, University of Agriculture: 250 p [distribution]
    Prasad (1974) A catalogue of mites of India. Ludhiana (Punjab), India, Indira Acarology Publishing House: 320 p [host]
    Gupta & Gupta (1978) On a collection of tetranychoid mites from Madhya Pradesh, India, with a description of a new Eotetranychus (Acari: Trombidiformes). Indian Journal of Acarology, 3: 87-91 [host]
    Nassar & Ghai (1981) Taxonomic studies on tetranychoid mites infesting vegetable and fruit crops in Delhi and surrounding areas. Oriental Insects, 15 (4): 333-396 [distribution; host]
    Gupta (1992) Arachnida: plant mites (Acari). Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal, Part 3: 61-211 [distribution; host]
    Faghih & Mobayen (1993) A study of overwintering of the fig mite, Eotetranychus hirsti in Esrahban. Proceedings of the 11th plant protection congress of Iran, Rasht, Iran: 185 [distribution; host]
    Gupta & Gupta (1994) A taxonomic review of Indian Tetranychidae (Acari: Prostgmata) with description of new species and redescriptions of known species, keys to genera and species. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India, 18: 1-196 [distribution; host]
    Gupta (1995) Plant mites (Acari). Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series 4: Fauna of Meghalaya, Part 2: 17-50 [distribution]
    Gupta & Chatterjee (1997) Acari: plant mites. Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series 6: Fauna of Delhi: 485-532 [distribution; host]
    Baradaran et al. (2002) Comparative population fluctuation of fig spider mite (Eotetranychus hirsti) on fig varieties in Saveh region. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 22: 49-61 [distribution; host]
    Ben-David et al. (2013) An annotated list of the spider mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) of Israel. Israel Journal of Entomology, 43: 125-148 [distribution; host]
    Beyzavi et al. (2013) A catalog of Iranian prostigmatic mites of superfamilies Raphignathoidea & Tetranychoidea (Acari). Persian Journal of Acarology, 2 (3): 389-474 [distribution]
    Daneshnia & Akrami (2013) Mites (Acari) associated with the fig trees (Ficus carica L.) in Estahban (Fars Province), Iran. Persian Journal of Acarology, 2(3): 539-541 [distribution; host]
    Dolatyar et al. (2015) Effect of temperature on the development of Eotetranychus hirsti (Tetranychidae) on fig leaves. Acarologia, 55 (3): 247-254 [distribution; host]
    Shakarami & Bazgir (2017) Effect of temperature on life table parameters of Phytoseius plumifer (Phytoseiidae) fed on Eotetranychus hirsti (Tetranychidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 22: 410-422 [distribution; host]
    Zeity (2017) Some new records of spider mites (Acari, Tetranychidae) from Syria. Acarologia, 57 (3): 651-654 [distribution; host]
    Zeity et al. (2017) Are Tetranychus macfarlanei Baker &, Pritchard, Tetranychus malaysiensis Ehara (Acari: Tetranychidae) one species? Morphological and molecular evidences for synonymy between these two spider mite species and a note on invasiveness of T. macfarlanei. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 22: 467 [distribution; host]