Spider Mites Web species

Anychus africanus Tucker, 1926. Valid nomenclatural act Tucker (1926): 5. Type host: Citrus aurantium, Citrus limon, Plumeria sp.. Type distribution: South Africa.
Eutetranychus africanus (Tucker, 1926). New combination Baker & Pritchard (1960): 464.

Eutetranychus orientalis nec (Klein, 1936), sensu Ehara & Yogi, 1998. Misidentification Ehara & Yogi (1998): 530.
Eutetranychus orientalis nec (Klein, 1936), sensu Ehara & Yogi, 1998. Corrected identification Ehara & Gotoh (2007b): 51.

Eutetranychus sambiranensis Gutierrez & Helle, 1971. Synonym description Gutierrez & Helle (1971): 48. Type host: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus heterophyllus, Carica papaya, Citrus sp., Cordia sp., Hevea brasiliensis, Manihot esculenta, Plumeria alba, Ricinus communis, Vitis labrusca. Type distribution: Madagascar.
Eutetranychus sambiranensis Gutierrez & Helle, 1971. Synonymy by Gutierrez & Etienne (1986): 84.

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Original description and illustration literature

[Original description] Tucker (1926)
[Synonym description] Gutierrez & Helle (1971)

Complementary description and illustration literature (1 reference)

Naves et al. (2023)

Molecular data literature (1 reference)

Naves et al. (2023)

Host plants (81 plants, 33 references)

Distribution of host plant reports by order

The colors of the plant orders follow the classification system of The Plant Phylogeny Project, ranging from Lycopodiales to Dipsacales (hover to display the orders).

List of host plants by family

Distribution (21 countries, 40 references)

Afrotropical: Comoros Bolland et al. (1998) Kenya Toroitich et al. (2009) Kiptoo et al. (2022) Madagascar Gutierrez & Helle (1971) Blommers & Gutierrez (1975) Migeon (2015) Mauritius Moutia (1958) Baker & Pritchard (1960) Migeon (2015) Mayotte Migeon (2015) Mozambique Meyer & Rodrigues (1966) Rodrigues (1968) Réunion Gutierrez & Etienne (1986) Migeon (2015) South Africa Tucker (1926) Meyer & Rodrigues (1966)
Australasian: French Polynesia Migeon (2015) Papua New Guinea Schicha & Guttierrez (1985) Migeon (2015) Vanuatu Migeon (2015)
Oriental: India Manson (1963) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Indonesia Dina & Santoso (2017) Rosa & Pramudi (2020) Pramudi et al. (2022) Japan Ehara & Yogi (1998) Ehara (1999) Ohno et al. (2011a) Myanmar Baker (1975b) Philippines Corpuz-Raros & Navasero (2008) Quimio et al. (2012) Quimio et al. (2013) Taiwan Matsuda et al. (2014) Ho et al. (2015) Lin et al. (2020) Thailand Sukumalanand et al. (1999) Uraisakul (1999) Sarapothong et al. (2017) Doungnapa et al. (2021)
Palearctic: Egypt Attiah (1967a) Zaher et al. (1982) Abd El-Wahab et al. (2010) Migeon (2015) Iran Sheikholeslam-Zadeh & Sadeghi-Nameghi (2010a) Sheikholeslam-Zadeh & Sadeghi-Nameghi (2010b) Beyzavi et al. (2013) Ghasemi Moghadam et al. (2016) Madeira Naves et al. (2023)

Literature (43 references in chronological order)

Tucker (1926) Some South African mites, mainly Tetranychidae, Eriophyidae. South African Department of Agriculture Division of Entomology Memories, 5: 1-15 [description; distribution; host]
Moutia (1958) Contribution to the study of some phytophagous Acarina, their predators in Mauritius. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 49 (1): 59-75 [distribution; host]
Baker & Pritchard (1960) The tetranychoid mites of Africa. Hilgardia, 29: 455-574 [distribution; host; taxononmy]
Manson (1963) Mites of the families Tetranychidae and Tenuipalpidae associated with citrus in South East Asia. Acarologia, 5 (3): 351-364 [distribution]
Meyer & Rodrigues (1966) Acari associated with cotton in South Africa (With reference to other plants). Garcia de Orta, 13: 1-33 [distribution; host]
Attiah (1967a) The Genus Eutetranychus in U.A.R., with description of three new species. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Egypte, 51: 11-16 [distribution; host]
Rodrigues (1968) Acarina de Mocambique catalogo das especies relacionadas com a agricultura. Agronomia Mocambicana, 2: 215-256 [distribution; host]
Gutierrez & Helle (1971) Deux nouvelles espèces du genre Eutetranychus Banks (Acariens : Tetranychidae) vivant sur plantes cultivées à Madagascar. Entomologische Berichten, Amsertdam, 31 (3): 45-60 [description; distribution; host]
Meyer (1974b) A revision of the Tetranychidae of Africa (Acari) with a key to the genera of the world. Entomology Memoir, Department of Agricultural Technical Services, Republic of South Africa, 1-291 [host]
Baker (1975b) Spider mites (Tetranychidae: Acarina) from southeast Asia, Japan. Cooperative Economic Insect Report, 25: 911-921 [distribution]
Blommers & Gutierrez (1975) Les tétranyques vivant sur agrumes et avocatiers dans la région de Tamatave (Madagascar-est) et quelques-uns de leurs prédateurs. Fruits, 30: 191-200 [distribution; host]
Zaher et al. (1982) Spider mites of Egypt (Acari: Tetranychidae). International Journal of Acarology, 8 (2): 91-114 [distribution; host]
Schicha & Guttierrez (1985) Phytoseiidae of Papua New Guinea, with three new species, and new records of Tetranychidae (Acari). International Journal of Acarology, 11: 173-181 [distribution; host]
Gutierrez & Etienne (1986) Les Tetranychidae de l'île de la Réunion et quelques-uns de leurs prédateurs. Agronomie Tropicale, 41 (1): 84-91 [distribution; host; taxononmy]
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]
Ehara (1995) A new species of Tetranychus (Acari, Tetranychidae) from the Ryukyu Islands. Japanese Journal of Entomology, 63: 229-233 [host]
Bolland et al. (1998) World catalogue of the spider mite family (Acari: Tetranychidae). Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers: 392 pp [distribution]
Ehara & Yogi (1998) Discovery of Eutetranychus orientalis (Klein) (Acari: Tetranychidae) from Okinawa Island, Japan. Plant Protection (Tokyo), 52: 530-533 [distribution; host; taxononmy]
Ehara (1999) Revision of the spider mite family Tetranychidae of Japan (Acari, Prostigmata). Species Diversity, 4: 63-141 [distribution]
Sukumalanand et al. (1999) Field Evaluation of Pyrimidifen for Controlling of The African Red Mite, Eutetranychus africanus (Tucker), on Tangerines in Chiang Mai. Journal of Agriculture, Thailand, 15 (1): 39-46 [distribution; host]
Uraisakul (1999) Effectiveness of some botanical extracts on vegetative growth of papaya, egg hatching inhibition of African red spider mite (Eutetranychus africanus (Tucker). The 37th Kasetsart University Annual Conference [distribution; host]
Ehara & Gotoh (2007b) Five species of spider mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) from Japan with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 1646: 51-58 [taxononmy]
Corpuz-Raros & Navasero (2008) Common mite pests of ornamentals and their phytoseid predators. Philippine Entomologist, 22 (2): 223 [distribution]
Toroitich et al. (2009) The tetranychid mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) of Kenya and a redescription of the species Peltanobia erasmusi Meyer (Acari: Tetranychidae) based on males. Zootaxa, 2176: 33-47 [distribution; host]
Abd El-Wahab et al. (2010) Influence of different temperatures on the biological aspects of Eutetranychus africanus (Tucker) (Acari: Tetranychidae: Prostigmata). Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 1 (7): 519-524 [distribution]
Sheikholeslam-Zadeh & Sadeghi-Nameghi (2010a) First records of four mite species (Acari: Tetranychidae) in Iran. Applied Entomology and Phytopathology, 78: 121-126 [distribution]
Sheikholeslam-Zadeh & Sadeghi-Nameghi (2010b) Faunistic survey of injurious mites associated with broad leaf trees in Mashhad greens (In Persian). Journal of Plant Protection (Agricultural Sceince, Technology), 24: 210-217 [distribution; host]
Ohno et al. (2011a) Wild host plants of four spider mite species (Acari: Tetranychidae) infesting fruit crops in Okinawa. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 14: 281-284 [distribution; host]
Quimio et al. (2012) Taxonomic survey of mites associated with Papaya in Northern and Southern Mindanao, Philippines. Philippine Entomologist, 26 (2): 199 [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]
Quimio et al. (2013) Seasonal dynamics of mites infesting papaya in Northern Mindanao. Smallholder HOPES—horticulture, people, soil, ACIAR: 79-88 [distribution; host]
Matsuda et al. (2014) Phylogenetic analysis of the spider mite sub-family Tetranychinae (Acari: Tetranychidae) based on the mitochondrial COI gene, the 18S and the 5 end of the 28S rRNA genes indicates that several genera are polyphyletic. Plos One, 9: e108672 [distribution; host]
Ho et al. (2015) Newly boomed mite pest of papaya in Taiwan. Journal of Taiwan Agricultural Research, 64 (3): 239-241 [distribution; host]
Migeon (2015) The Jean Gutierrez spider mite collection. Zookeys, 489: 15-24 [distribution; host]
Ghasemi Moghadam et al. (2016) Species composition of tetranychoid mites (Acari: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Tetranychoidea) in main landscapes of Tehran, modelling ecological niche of Tetranychoidea in main climates of Tehran Province, Iran. Biologia, 71: 1151-1166 [distribution; host]
Dina & Santoso (2017) Identification of pest mite on papaya in the Lombok Island. Indonesian Journal of Entomology, 14 (1): 37-43 [distribution; host]
Sarapothong et al. (2017) Acaricidal toxicity of nano essential oil of black pepper against African Red Mite (Eutetranychus africanus (Tucker)). International Journal of Agricultural Technology, 17 (7.3): 2267-2274 [distribution]
Lin et al. (2020) Temperature-dependent life history of Eutetranychus africanus (Acari: Tetranychidae) on papaya. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 25: 479-490 [distribution; host]
Rosa & Pramudi (2020) Identifikasi Tungau Hama pada Tanaman Pepaya (Carica papaya L.). Jurnal Proteksi Tanaman Tropika, 3 (1): 164-168 [distribution; host]
Doungnapa et al. (2021) Acaricidal activity of essential oil nanoemulsion against the African red mite (Eutetranychus africanus). Chilean journal of agricultural research, 81 (2): 228-236 [distribution; host]
Kiptoo et al. (2022) Agro ecological zone influence on predacious mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and pest mite, Eutetranychus africanus (Acari: Tetranychidae) populations in citrus orchards in Kenya. Persian Journal of Acarology, 11 (3): 515-529 [distribution; host]
Pramudi et al. (2022) Diversity, abundance of pest mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) on papaya in Tanah Laut and Banjarbaru city, south Kalimantan, Indonesia. Serangga, 27(2): 1-12 [distribution; host]
Naves et al. (2023) Two new alien Eutetranychus mites (Prostigmata, Tetranychidae) for Madeira Island, Portugal. Acarologia, 63 (4): 1154-1162 [distribution; host; illustration; molecular]