Tetranychidae - Tetranychinae - Tetranychini - Oligonychus (Reckiella)
Oligonychus (Reckiella) grypus Baker & Pritchard, 1960. Baker & Pritchard (1960): 526.
Oligonychus grypus Baker & Pritchard, 1960. Baker & Pritchard (1960): 526.
Type host: Poaceae sp., Saccharum officinarum. Type distribution: Congo DRC. Oligonychus grypus Baker & Pritchard, 1960. Valid nomenclatural act Baker & Pritchard (1960): 526. Type host: Poaceae sp., Saccharum officinarum. Type distribution: Congo DRC.
Oligonychus (Reckiella) grypus Baker & Pritchard, 1960. New combination Helle et al. (1981): 150.
Oligonychus grypus Baker & Pritchard, 1960. New combination Bolland et al. (1998): 112.
Oligonychus (Reckiella) grypus Baker & Pritchard, 1960. New combination Mushtaq et al. (2021b): 105.
Oligonychus monsarrati Gutierrez, 1967. Synonym description Gutierrez (1967b): 571. Type host: Panicum maximum. Type distribution: Madagascar.
Oligonychus monsarrati Gutierrez, 1967. Synonymy by Meyer (1974b): 283.
Oligonychus monsarrati Gutierrez, 1967. Reinstatement Bolland et al. (1998): 120.
Oligonychus monsarrati Gutierrez, 1967. Synonymy by Mushtaq et al. (2021b): 105.
Araceae: Colocasia esculenta Migeon (2015)
Costaceae: Costus spicatus Martinez et al. (2004)
Euphorbiaceae: Manihot esculenta Martinez et al. (2004)
Menispermaceae: Cissampelos owariensis Meyer (1987)
Musaceae: Musa x paradisiaca Meyer (1987) Migeon (2015) Bhaskar et al. (2025b)
Poaceae: Echinochloa colonum Martinez et al. (2004) Ehrharta erecta Meyer (1987) Migeon (2015) Eleusine indica Martinez et al. (2004) Heteropogon contortus Meyer (1974b) Leptochloa sp. Martinez et al. (2004) Oryza sativa Meyer (1987) Sivakumar & Kunchithapatham (2014) Bhaskar et al. (2025b) Panicum maximum Gutierrez (1967b) Meyer (1974b) Migeon (2015) Panicum pilosum Pennisetum macrourum Meyer (1974b) Migeon (2015) Pennisetum purpureum Meyer & Bolland (1984) Migeon (2015) Phragmites australis Migeon (2015) Poaceae sp. Baker & Pritchard (1960) Saccharum officinarum Baker & Pritchard (1960) Flechtmann (1996a) Martinez et al. (2004) Suarez (2004) Almeida et al. (2009) Ramos et al. (2023) Setaria barbata Meyer (1987) Sorghum sp. Urochloa mosambicensis Rodrigues (1968) Migeon (2015) Yushania alpina Meyer & Bolland (1984) Zea mays Meyer (1974b)
Afrotropical: Cameroon Meyer & Bolland (1984) Comoros Bolland et al. (1998) Migeon (2015) Congo Migeon (2015) Congo DRC Baker & Pritchard (1960) Madagascar Gutierrez (1967b) Gutierrez (1982) Migeon (2015) Malawi Meyer (1974b) Migeon (2015) Mozambique Rodrigues (1968) Nigeria Matthysse (1980) South Africa Meyer (1965) Migeon (2015) Zimbabwe Meyer (1974b)
Australasian: Australia Gutierrez & Schicha (1983) Papua New Guinea Gutierrez & Schicha (1983) Migeon (2015)
Nearctic: United States Skelley et al. (2025)
Neotropical: Brazil Flechtmann (1996a) Almeida et al. (2009) Ramos et al. (2023) Cuba Ramos et al. (1987) Martinez et al. (2004) Suarez (2004)
Oriental: India Sivakumar & Kunchithapatham (2014) Channegowda et al. (2022) Bhaskar et al. (2025b)
Baker & Pritchard (1960) The tetranychoid mites of Africa. Hilgardia, 29: 455-574 [description; distribution; host]
Meyer (1965) South African Acarina I. Nine species of the subfamily Tetranychidae collected on wild plants. Koedoe, 8: 82-94 [distribution]
Gutierrez (1967b) Cinq autres nouvelles espèces de Tetranychidae de Madagascar (Troisième note). Acarologia, 9 (3): 567-580 [description; distribution; host]
Rodrigues (1968) Acarina de Mocambique catalogo das especies relacionadas com a agricultura. Agronomia Mocambicana, 2: 215-256 [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 [distribution; host; taxononmy]
Matthysse (1980) Preliminary report on the mites collected from plants and animals in Nigeria. I Mites from plants. Nigerian Journal of Entomology, 1: 57-70 [distribution]
Helle et al. (1981) A survey of chromosome complements in the Tetranychidae. International Journal of Acarology, 7: 147-156 [taxononmy]
Gutierrez (1982) Deux acariens phytophages vivant sur canne à sucre à la Réunion: Oligonychus etiennei n.sp. (Tetranychidae) et Abacarus sacchari (Eriophyidae). Agronomie Tropicale, 37 (4): 389-392 [distribution]
Gutierrez & Schicha (1983) The spider mite family Tetranychidae (Acari) in New South Wales. International Journal of Acarology, 9(3): 99-116 [distribution]
Meyer & Bolland (1984) Tetranychoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) from Cameroun and a survey of their chromosome complements. Phytophylactica, 16: 209-220 [distribution; host]
Meyer (1987) African Tetranychidae (Acari: Prostigmata) - with reference to the world genera. Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture, Water Supply, Republic of South Africa, 69: 1-175 [host]
Ramos et al. (1987) Oligonychus (Reckiella) grypus sobre cana de azucar: primera notificacion en Cuba. Revista de Proteccion Vegetal, 2: 200-203 [distribution]
Flechtmann (1996a) Rediscovery of Tetranychus abacae Baker & Pritchard, additional description and notes on South American spider mites (Acari, Prostigmata, Tetranychidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 13: 569-578 [distribution; host]
Bolland et al. (1998) World catalogue of the spider mite family (Acari: Tetranychidae). Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers: 392 pp [distribution; taxononmy]
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]
Almeida et al. (2009) Primero relato da occurrência do acaro Oligonychus grypus em cana-de-açucar no Estado de São Paulo. Revista de Agricultura, Piracicaba-SP, 84 (3): 173-174 [distribution; host]
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]
Channegowda et al. (2022) Two new records of spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) with new host plant from Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India. Persian Journal of Acarology, 11 (1): 153-157 [distribution]
Ramos et al. (2023) Detecção e comparação de sintomas entre Oligonychus grypus e Schizotetranychus sacharum em cana-de-açúcar. XXXV Congresso de Iniciação Científica da Unesp – CIC 2023: Poster [distribution; host]
Bhaskar et al. (2025b) A catalogue of spider mite (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) fauna associated with agricultural ecosystems of Kerala, South India with a taxonomic key. Acarologia, 65 (2): 534-546 [distribution; host]
Skelley et al. (2025) Adventive arthropods in Florida as reported by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, 1990–2023. Florida Entomologist, 108 (s1): 20240027 [distribution]