Mononychellus caribbeanae (McGregor, 1950)

Classification

Tetranychidae - Tetranychinae - Tetranychini - Mononychellus

Accepted name

Mononychellus caribbeanae (McGregor, 1950). McGregor (1950): 283.

Original description

Tetranychus caribbeanae McGregor, 1950. McGregor (1950): 283.

Type host: Manihot esculenta. Type distribution: Haiti, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Summary

  • Nomenclature
  • Identification
  • Hosts
  • Distribution
  • Literature
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  • Nomenclature and taxonomy

         Tetranychus caribbeanae McGregor, 1950. Valid nomenclatural act McGregor (1950): 283. Type host: Manihot esculenta. Type distribution: Haiti, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
    Eotetranychus caribbeanae (McGregor, 1950). New combination Pritchard & Baker (1955): 147.
    Mononychus caribbeanae (McGregor, 1950). New combination Wainstein (1960a): 199.
    Schizotetranychus caribbeanae (McGregor, 1950). New combination Livshits & Salinas-Croche (1968): 95.
    Mononychellus caribbeanae (McGregor, 1950). New combination Wainstein (1971): 587.


    Identification tools

    Original description and illustration literature
    [Original description] McGregor (1950)

    Hosts (9 plants, 15 references)


    Cornaceae: Cornus sp.
    Euphorbiaceae: Manihot esculenta McGregor (1950) Bellotti et al. (1982) Anonymous (1999) Flechtmann et al. (1999) Alvarez & Alarcon (2004) Martinez et al. (2004) Suarez (2004) Guanilo et al. (2012) Sanchez et al. (2014) Migeon (2015) Atencio-Valdespino et al. (2024)
    Fabaceae: Dalbergia sissoo Livshits & Salinas-Croche (1968) Erythrina berteroana Lonchocarpus hermannii Tuttle et al. (1976) Piscidia piscipula Piscidia sp.
    Malpighiaceae: Malpighia emarginata Sanchez et al. (2014)
    Malvaceae: Gossypium sp. McGregor (1955)


    Distribution (25 countries, 27 references)


    Nearctic: Mexico Tuttle et al. (1976) United States Pritchard & Baker (1955)
    Neotropical: Bahamas Yaseen & Bennett (1977) Barbados Doreste (1982) Brazil Byrne et al. (1983) Colombia Urueta (1975) Bellotti et al. (1982) Costa Rica Baker & Pritchard (1962) Cuba Livshits & Salinas-Croche (1968) Cuervo et al. (1994) Alvarez & Alarcon (2004) Martinez et al. (2004) Suarez (2004) Dominican Republic Anonymous (1999) Perez-Gelabert (2008) Sanchez et al. (2014) Ecuador McGregor (1955) El Salvador Ochoa et al. (1991) Guadeloupe Nyiira (1982) Gutierrez et al. (1991) Flechtmann et al. (1999) Migeon (2015) Guatemala Ochoa et al. (1991) Guyana Byrne et al. (1983) Haiti McGregor (1950) Honduras Ochoa et al. (1991) Martinique Flechtmann et al. (1999) Nicaragua Doreste (1982) Panama Doreste (1982) Atencio-Valdespino et al. (2024) Peru Nyiira (1982) Guanilo et al. (2012) Puerto Rico McGregor (1950) Saint Kitts and Nevis McGregor (1950) Suriname Byrne et al. (1983) Trinidad and Tobago Byrne et al. (1983) CAB (1990) Venezuela Doreste (1981)


    Literature (29 references in chronological order)


    McGregor (1950) Mites of the family Tetranychidae. American Midland Naturalist, 44: 257-420 [description; distribution; host]
    McGregor (1955) Notes on the spider mites of Equador. Revista Ecuatoriana de Entomologia y Parasitologia, 2: 365-377 [distribution; host]
    Pritchard & Baker (1955) A revision of the spider mite family Tetranychidae. Memoirs Series, San Francisco, Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 2: 472 p [distribution; taxononmy]
    Wainstein (1960a) Tetranychoid mites of Kazakhstan (with revision of the family). Trudy Nauchno-Issled. Inst. Zashchita Rastenii Kazakh., 5: 1-276 [taxononmy]
    Baker & Pritchard (1962) Arañas rojas de América Central (Acarina : Tetranychidae). Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural, 23: 309-340 [distribution]
    Livshits & Salinas-Croche (1968) Preliminares acerca de los acaros Tetranicos de Cuba. Cuba, Centro Nacional Fitosanirario, 156 pp [distribution; host; taxononmy]
    Wainstein (1971) Mononychellus, a new name for Mononychus (Acariformes, Tetranychidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 50: 589 [taxononmy]
    Urueta (1975) Aranas rojas (Acarina: Tetranychidae) del Departamento de Antioquia. Revista Colombiana de Entomologia, 1: 1-14 [distribution]
    Tuttle et al. (1976) Spider mites of Mexico (Acarina : Tetranychidae). International Journal of Acarology, 2: 1-102 [distribution; host]
    Yaseen & Bennett (1977) Distribution, biology and dynamics of the green cassava mite in the Neotropics. Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops, 4th, Cali Colombia, IDRC, Ottawa, Canada: 197-202 [distribution]
    Doreste (1981) Acaros del género Mononychellus Wainstein (Acari Tetranychidae) asociados con la Yuca (Manihot spp.) en Venezuela. Boletin de Entomologia Venezolana, N.S. 1: 119-130 [distribution]
    Bellotti et al. (1982) Acaros presentes en el cultivo de la yuca y su control. Guia de Estudio, Centro International de Agricultura Tropical, serie 04SC- 02.04, Cali, Colombia: 34 p [distribution; host]
    Doreste (1982) El complejo de acaros tetraniquidos, como plaga importante del cultivo de la Yuca. Revista de la Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 12: 249-254 [distribution]
    Nyiira (1982) Mononychellus tanajoa (Bondar): Implications, approach to its management. Okoli, O.O., Proceedings of the Internationnal Workshop Contr. cassava mealybug, green spider mite: 1-194 [distribution]
    Byrne et al. (1983) The cassava mites. Tropical Pest Management, 29: 378-394 [distribution]
    CAB (1990) Listing of mites identified by CAB International, found in Trinidad (October, 1990). CAB-International: 1-2 [distribution]
    Gutierrez et al. (1991) Deuterotoky in Mononychellus caribbeanae (Acari: Tetranychidae) on cassava in Guadeloupe. Karyotype, preliminary biological data. Dusbàbek, F., Bukva, V., Modern acarology, Academia, Prag, The Hague, 2: 443-447 [distribution]
    Ochoa et al. (1991) Acaros fitofagos de America Central: guia ilustrada. Serie Técnica. Manual técnico, Turrialba, Costa Rica, CATIE: 251 p [distribution]
    Cuervo et al. (1994) Lista alfabetica de las especies de acaros de Cuba (Arachnida: Acari). Ciudad de La Habana: 21 p [distribution]
    Anonymous (1999) Indice de plagas, enfermedades y malezas de la splantas en la Republica Dominicana. Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana, Instituto interamericano de Cooperacion para la Agricultura. Agencia de Cooperacion tecnica en la Republica Dominicana: 221pp [distribution; host]
    Flechtmann et al. (1999) Plant mites (Acari) of the French Antilles. 1. Tetranychoidea (Prostigmata). Acarologia, 40 (2): 137-144 [distribution; host]
    Alvarez & Alarcon (2004) Catalogo de caros fitofagos de la provincia de Las Tunas. Fitosanidad, 8(1): 19-21 [distribution; host]
    Martinez et al. (2004) Principales acaros detectados en la provincia de Villa Clara. Fitosanidad, 8: 3-17 [distribution; host]
    Suarez (2004) Catalogo de acaros de la provincia de Guantanamo. Fitosanidad, 8: 23-31 [distribution; host]
    Perez-Gelabert (2008) Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic, Haiti): A checklist and bibliography. Zootaxa, 1831: 1-530 [distribution]
    Guanilo et al. (2012) Phytophagous and fungivorous mites (Acari: Prostigmata, Astigmata) from Peru. International Journal of Acarology, 38 (2): 120-134 [distribution; host]
    Sanchez et al. (2014) Plant mites of the Dominican Republic, with a description of a new species of Petrobia (Tetranychina) Waisnstein, 1960 (Acari, Prostigmata, Tetranychidae) and a key to the species of this subgenus. Zootaxa, 3846: 547-560 [distribution; host]
    Migeon (2015) The Jean Gutierrez spider mite collection. Zookeys, 489: 15-24 [distribution; host]
    Atencio-Valdespino et al. (2024) Presencia de dos especies de ácaros (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae: Mononychellus) de la yuca (Manihot esculenta Crantz), Provincia de Coclé, Panamá. Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 27: 067 [distribution; host]