Tetranychidae - Tetranychinae - Tetranychini - Oligonychus (Reckiella)
Oligonychus (Reckiella) zeae (McGregor, 1955). McGregor (1955): 370.
Paratetranychus zeae McGregor, 1955. McGregor (1955): 370.
Type host: Zea mays. Type distribution: Ecuador. Oligonychus melinis Flechtmann, 1971. Emendation Flechtmann & Baker (1975): 118.
Oligonychus melinis Flechtmann, 1971. Synonymy by Flechtmann & Santana (1997): 190.
Oligonychus (Reckiella) mellinni Flechtmann, 1971. Synonym description Flechtmann (1971): 44. Type host: Melinis sp.. Type distribution: Brazil.
Paratetranychus zeae McGregor, 1955. Valid nomenclatural act McGregor (1955): 370. Type host: Zea mays. Type distribution: Ecuador.
Oligonychus zeae (McGregor, 1955). New combination Baker & Pritchard (1962): 328.
Oligonychus (Reckiella) zeae (McGregor, 1955). New combination Tuttle et al. (1976): 85.
Oligonychus zeae (McGregor, 1955). New combination Bolland et al. (1998): 13.
Oligonychus (Reckiella) zeae (McGregor, 1955). New combination Mushtaq et al. (2021b): 106.
Arecaceae: Elaeis guineensis Aguilar & Solano-Guevara (2020)
Musaceae: Musa x paradisiaca Baker & Pritchard (1962) Urueta (1975) Salas (1978) Andrews & Poe (1980)
Poaceae: Brachiaria mutica Urueta (1975) Brachiaria plantaginea Flechtmann & Santana (1997) Echinochloa colonum Freitez & Alvarado (1978b) Melinis minutiflora Aranda (1974) Melinis sp. Flechtmann (1971) Flechtmann & Santana (1997) Olyra sp. Feres et al. (2005) Saccharum officinarum Jeppson et al. (1975) Guanilo et al. (2012) Sorghum arundinaceum Freitez & Alvarado (1978b) Sorghum bicolor Freitez & Alvarado (1978b) Sorghum sp. Jeppson et al. (1975) Zea mays McGregor (1955) Flechtmann & Abreu (1973) Migeon (2015)
Nearctic: Mexico Estebanes-Gonzalez & Baker (1968)
Neotropical: Brazil Flechtmann (1971) Flechtmann & Abreu (1973) Aranda (1974) Moraes & McMurtry (1983) Feres et al. (2005) Colombia Urueta (1975) Costa Rica Freitez (1974) Salas (1978) Aguilar & Solano-Guevara (2020) Ecuador McGregor (1955) El Salvador Baker & Pritchard (1962) Andrews & Poe (1980) Guadeloupe Gutierrez & Etienne (1988) Migeon (2015) Honduras Baker & Pritchard (1962) Nicaragua Ochoa et al. (1991) Peru Guanilo et al. (2012) Venezuela Freitez & Alvarado (1978a)
Palearctic: Iran Kamali (1990) Beyzavi et al. (2013)
McGregor (1955) Notes on the spider mites of Equador. Revista Ecuatoriana de Entomologia y Parasitologia, 2: 365-377 [description; distribution; host]
Baker & Pritchard (1962) Arañas rojas de América Central (Acarina : Tetranychidae). Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural, 23: 309-340 [distribution; host; taxononmy]
Estebanes-Gonzalez & Baker (1968) Arañas rojas de Mexico (Acarina: Tetranychidae).. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, 15: 61-133 [distribution]
Flechtmann (1971) Alguns Trombidiformes do Brasil e do Paraguai (Acari). Piracicaba, Brasil: 63 pp [description; distribution; host]
Flechtmann & Abreu (1973) Acaros fitofagos do Estado da Bahia, Brasil. (Notas preliminares). Ciencia e Cultura, 25: 244-251 [distribution; host]
Aranda (1974) Tetranychoidea (Acari) de uma area de cerrado do estado de São Paulo. Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Piracicaba, São Paulo: 47 [distribution; host]
Freitez (1974) Reconcimiento preliminar de Acaros fitoparasitos de la familia Tetranychidae de Costa Rica (Acarina). San José, Costa Rica, Universidad de Costa Rica, Facultad de Agronomia: 130 p [distribution]
Flechtmann & Baker (1975) A report on the Tetranychidae (Acari) of Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 19: 111-122 [taxononmy]
Jeppson et al. (1975) Mites injurious to economic plants. Berkeley, University of California Press: xxiv + 614 p [host]
Urueta (1975) Aranas rojas (Acarina: Tetranychidae) del Departamento de Antioquia. Revista Colombiana de Entomologia, 1: 1-14 [distribution; host]
Tuttle et al. (1976) Spider mites of Mexico (Acarina : Tetranychidae). International Journal of Acarology, 2: 1-102 [taxononmy]
Freitez & Alvarado (1978a) Contribucion al conocimiento de acaros en Musaceae de Venezuela (Acarina). Revista de la Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 26: 197-207 [distribution]
Freitez & Alvarado (1978b) Acaraos en gramineas de los estados Portuguesa y Yaracuy - Venezuela. Ciarco, Venezuela, 8: 55-61 [host]
Salas (1978) Algunas notas sobre las arañitas rojas (Tetranychidae: Acari) halladas en Costa Rica. Agronomia Costarricense, 2: 47-59 [distribution; host]
Andrews & Poe (1980) Spider mites of El Salvador, Central America (Acari: Tetranychidae). Florida Entomologist, 63: 502-505 [distribution; host]
Moraes & McMurtry (1983) Phytoseiid mites (Acarina) of northeastern Brazil with descriptions of four new species. International Journal of Acarology, 9 (3): 131-148 [distribution]
Gutierrez & Etienne (1988) Quelques données sur les acariens phytophages de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe. Journées de la Protection des Végétaux dans les Départements d'Outre-Mer, Montpellier, France: 1-6 [distribution]
Kamali (1990) A checklist of plant mites (Acari) of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran. Scientific Journal of Agriculture, 13: 73-83 [distribution]
Ochoa et al. (1991) Acaros fitofagos de America Central: guia ilustrada. Serie Técnica. Manual técnico, Turrialba, Costa Rica, CATIE: 251 p [distribution]
Flechtmann & Santana (1997) A preliminary note on mites on corn in Brazil with redescriptions of Catarhinus tricholaenae, Oligonychus zeae (Acari: Diptilomiopidae, Tetranychidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2: 189-194 [host; taxononmy]
Bolland et al. (1998) World catalogue of the spider mite family (Acari: Tetranychidae). Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers: 392 pp [taxononmy]
Feres et al. (2005) Acaros planticolas (Acari) da Estação ecologica do Noroeste Paulista, estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Biota Neotropica, 5 (1): 43-56 [distribution; host]
Guanilo et al. (2012) Phytophagous and fungivorous mites (Acari: Prostigmata, Astigmata) from Peru. International Journal of Acarology, 38 (2): 120-134 [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]
Migeon (2015) The Jean Gutierrez spider mite collection. Zookeys, 489: 15-24 [distribution; host]
Aguilar & Solano-Guevara (2020) New hosts, records of plant feeding mites for Costa Rica: interval 2013-2018. Agronomia Costarricense, 44 (1): 9-28 [distribution; host]
Mushtaq et al. (2021b) The genus Oligonychus Berlese (Acari, Prostigmata, Tetranychidae): taxonomic assessment and a key to subgenera, species groups, and subgroups. Zookeys, 1079: 89-127 [taxononmy]