Oligonychus (Reckiella) indicus (Hirst, 1923)

Classification

Tetranychidae - Tetranychinae - Tetranychini - Oligonychus (Reckiella)

Accepted name

Oligonychus (Reckiella) indicus (Hirst, 1923). Hirst (1923): 990.

Original description

Paratetranychus indicus Hirst, 1923. Hirst (1923): 990.

Type host: Sorghum bicolor, Sorghum sp.. Type distribution: India, Pakistan.

Summary

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

         Paratetranychus indicus Hirst, 1923. Valid nomenclatural act Hirst (1923): 990. Type host: Sorghum bicolor, Sorghum sp.. Type distribution: India, Pakistan.
    Oligonychus indicus (Hirst, 1923). New combination Pritchard & Baker (1955): 354.
    Oligonychus (Reckiella) indicus (Hirst, 1923). New combination Mushtaq et al. (2021b): 105.


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    Original description and illustration literature
    [Original description] Hirst (1923)

    Hosts (23 plants, 15 references)


    Arecaceae: Areca catechu Prasad (1974) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Cocos nucifera Gupta & Gupta (1994)
    Fabaceae: Glycine sp.
    Musaceae: Musa sp. Prasad (1974) Gupta (1992) Gupta (1995) Musa x paradisiaca Gupta & Gupta (1994)
    Nelumbonaceae: Nelumbo nucifera
    Poaceae: Brachiaria distachya Prasad (1974) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Cynodon dactylon Gupta & Gupta (1994) Dactyloctenium aegyptium Gupta et al. (1971b) Dichanthium annulatum Gupta & Gupta (1994) Oryza sativa Gupta & Gupta (1994) Oryza sp. Prasad (1974) Poaceae sp. Gupta (1992) Saccharum arundinaceum Gupta & Gupta (1994) Saccharum bengalense Gupta & Gupta (1994) Saccharum officinarum Rahman & Sapra (1940a) Rahman & Sapra (1940b) Venkatraman & Sharma (1960) Kazimi & Ghani (1969) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Setaria viridis Ma & Yuan (1980a) Sorghum arundinaceum Sorghum bicolor Hirst (1923) Rahman & Sapra (1940b) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Migeon (2015) Sorghum halepense Rahman & Sapra (1940a) Rahman & Sapra (1940b) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Sorghum sp. Hirst (1923) Sivakumar & Kunchithapatham (2014) Urochloa panicoides Prasad (1974) Gupta & Gupta (1994) Zea mays McGregor & Ortega (1953) Gupta & Gupta (1994)


    Distribution (4 countries, 13 references)


    Afrotropical: Kenya Migeon (2015)
    Oriental: China Ma & Yuan (1980a) India Hirst (1923) Rahman & Sapra (1940b) Venkatraman & Sharma (1960) Gupta (1992) Gupta (1995) Gupta & Chatterjee (1997) Sivakumar & Kunchithapatham (2014) Pakistan Hirst (1923) Rahman & Sapra (1940a) Kazimi & Ghani (1969) Gupta (1985) Gupta & Gupta (1994)


    Literature (18 references in chronological order)


    Hirst (1923) On some new or little-known species of Acari. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 93 (4): 971-1000 [description; distribution; host]
    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]
    Rahman & Sapra (1940b) Biology of the mite Paratetranychus indicus Hirst, a pest of sugar cane in the Punjab. Indian Journal of Entomology, 2 (2): 201-212 [distribution; host]
    McGregor & Ortega (1953) Una nueva arana roja de Mexico, Paratetranychus mexicanus sp. n. (Acarina, Tetranychidae). Folleto Tecnico, Secretaria de Agricultura y Ganaderia, 10: 1-7 [host]
    Pritchard & Baker (1955) A revision of the spider mite family Tetranychidae. Memoirs Series, San Francisco, Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 2: 472 p [taxononmy]
    Venkatraman & Sharma (1960) A note on the natural control of the sugarcane mite Oligonychus indicus (Hirst). Current Science, 313-314 [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; host]
    Gupta et al. (1971b) Preliminary note on the phytophagous, predatory mite fauna of Punjaband Himachal Pradesh.. Science and Culture, 37: 296-299 [host]
    Prasad (1974) A catalogue of mites of India. Ludhiana (Punjab), India, Indira Acarology Publishing House: 320 p [host]
    Ma & Yuan (1980a) New species and new records of tetranychid mites from China I. (Acarina: Tetranychidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 5: 42-45 [distribution; host]
    Gupta (1985) Plant mites of India. Handbook, Zoological Survey of India: 520 pp [distribution]
    Gupta (1992) Arachnida: plant mites (Acari). Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal, Part 3: 61-211 [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; host]
    Gupta & Chatterjee (1997) Acari: plant mites. Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series 6: Fauna of Delhi: 485-532 [distribution]
    Sivakumar & Kunchithapatham (2014) Phytophagous mite diversity of Tetranychus spp. and Oligonychus spp. (Acari: Tetranychidae) found on different host plants in Coimbatore district and surrounding regions. Trends in Biosciences, 7 (24): 4113-4117 [distribution; host]
    Migeon (2015) The Jean Gutierrez spider mite collection. Zookeys, 489: 15-24 [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]