Tetranychidae - Tetranychinae - Tetranychini - Oligonychus (Reckiella)
Oligonychus (Reckiella) pratensis (Banks, 1912). Banks (1912): 97.
Tetranychus pratensis Banks, 1912. Banks (1912): 97.
Type host: Phleum pratense. Type distribution: United States. Paratetranychus heteronychus Ewing, 1922. Synonym description Ewing (1922): 105. Type host: Phoenix dactylifera. Type distribution: United States.
Paratetranychus heteronychus Ewing, 1922. Synonymy by Pritchard & Baker (1955): 349.
Tetranychus pratensis Banks, 1912. Valid nomenclatural act Banks (1912): 97. Type host: Phleum pratense. Type distribution: United States.
Paratetranychus pratensis (Banks, 1912). New combination Banks (1915): 37.
Oligonychus pratensis (Banks, 1912). New combination Pritchard & Baker (1955): 349.
Oligonychus (Reckiella) pratensis (Banks, 1912). New combination Tuttle & Baker (1968): 122.
Oligonychus pratensis (Banks, 1912). New combination Baker & Tuttle (1994): 274.
Oligonychus (Reckiella) pratensis (Banks, 1912). New combination Mushtaq et al. (2021b): 106.
Tetranychus simplex Banks, 1914. Synonym description Banks (1914): 57. Type host: Phoenix dactylifera. Type distribution: United States.
Paratetranychus simplex (Banks, 1914). New combination Banks (1915): 37.
Paratetranychus simplex (Banks, 1914). Synonymy by Pritchard & Baker (1955): 349.
Arecaceae: Arenga sp. Cocos nucifera Phoenix canariensis Phoenix dactylifera Banks (1914) Ewing (1922) Pritchard & Baker (1955) Ganjisaffar & Perring (2017) Mushtaq et al. (2023b) Phoenix roebelenii Feres et al. (2009) Washingtonia filifera Feres et al. (2009)
Cucurbitaceae: Citrullus lanatus Tuttle et al. (1976) Cucurbita palmata Tuttle & Baker (1964)
Cyperaceae: Carex simulata Tuttle & Baker (1968) Cyperus alternifolius Tuttle & Baker (1964)
Euphorbiaceae: Euphorbia albomarginata Tuttle & Baker (1968)
Juglandaceae: Carya illinoinensis McGregor (1939)
Malvaceae: Abelmoschus esculentus Chaudhri et al. (1974) Iqbal & Ali (2008)
Moraceae: Morus alba Iqbal & Ali (2008)
Poaceae: Agrostis gigantea Aristida adscensionis Tuttle & Baker (1968) Bambusa sp. Goff (1986) Bothriochloa saccharoides Tuttle et al. (1976) Bouteloua aristidoides Brachiaria mutica Pritchard & Baker (1955) Bromus anomalus Tuttle & Baker (1968) Bromus arizonicus Tuttle & Baker (1968) Cenchrus echinatus Tuttle & Baker (1968) Cenchrus incertus Chloris barbata Migeon (2015) Chloris virgata Tuttle & Baker (1968) Chondrosum barbatum Tuttle & Baker (1964) Tuttle & Baker (1968) Cynodon dactylon Pritchard & Baker (1955) Bibby & Tuttle (1959) Tuttle & Baker (1964) Zaher et al. (1982) Migeon (2015) Alatawi & Kamran (2018) Dactyloctenium aegyptium Migeon (2015) Dactyloctenium capitatum Migeon (2015) Digitaria argillacea Digitaria diversinervis Echinochloa colonum Tuttle & Baker (1964) Elymus canadensis Tuttle & Baker (1968) Elymus elymoides Tuttle & Baker (1968) Elymus hispidus Elymus repens Tuttle & Baker (1968) Elymus smithii Elymus sp. Thewke & Enns (1969) Elymus trachycaulus Tuttle & Baker (1968) Elymus virginicus Thewke & Enns (1969) Eragrostis cilianensis Eriochloa lemmonii Tuttle & Baker (1964) Hilaria rigida Tuttle & Baker (1968) Hordeum jubatum Tuttle & Baker (1968) Hordeum vulgare Imperata sp. Li et al. (2018a) Leptochloa fusca Tuttle & Baker (1968) Leptochloa mucronata Salas (1978) Lolium perenne Tuttle & Baker (1968) Oryza glaberrima Gutierrez & Etienne (1981a) Oryza sativa Salas (1978) Oryza sp. Migeon (2015) Panicum antidotale Tuttle & Baker (1968) Panicum capillare Tuttle & Baker (1968) Panicum maximum Panicum sp. Pritchard & Baker (1955) Paspalum dilatatum Tuttle & Baker (1964) Pennisetum alopecuroides Ma & Yuan (1980a) Phalaris minor Tuttle & Baker (1964) Phleum pratense Banks (1912) Phragmites australis Tuttle & Baker (1964) Pleioblastus simonii Poa nemoralis Tuttle & Baker (1968) Poa pratensis Tuttle & Baker (1968) Poaceae sp. Pritchard & Baker (1955) Saccharum officinarum McGregor (1950) Pritchard & Baker (1955) Baker (1975a) Flechtmann & Baker (1975) Goff (1986) Aguilar & Murillo (2012) Setaria viridis Tuttle & Baker (1968) Ma & Yuan (1980a) Sorghum bicolor Bibby & Tuttle (1959) Tuttle & Baker (1964) Tuttle & Baker (1968) Baker (1975a) Gutierrez & Etienne (1981a) Archer et al. (1986) Archer et al. (1988) Archer & Bynum (1990) Archer et al. (1990a) Archer et al. (1990b) Sorghum halepense Tuttle & Baker (1964) Flechtmann & Hunter (1971) Sorghum sp. Migeon (2015) Sporobolus junceus Tuttle et al. (1976) Triticum aestivum Pritchard & Baker (1955) Zea mays Bibby & Tuttle (1959) Bacon et al. (1962) Baker & Pritchard (1962) Tuttle & Baker (1964) Tuttle & Baker (1976) Andrews & Poe (1980) Archer et al. (1988) Bynum et al. (2015) Bui et al. (2018) Barnes et al. (2024)
Rosaceae: Rubus fruticosus Maric et al. (2018b)
Rubiaceae: Bouvardia ternifolia Tuttle et al. (1976)
Sapindaceae: Melicoccus sp. Salas (1978)
Solanaceae: Calibrachoa parviflora Tuttle & Baker (1968) Solanum elaeagnifolium Tuttle et al. (1976) Solanum melongena Iqbal & Ali (2008)
Zygophyllaceae: Tribulus terrestris Tuttle & Baker (1968)
Afrotropical: Madagascar Helle et al. (1970) Migeon (2015) Senegal Gutierrez & Etienne (1981a) Gutierrez & Etienne (1981b) Migeon (2015)
Australasian: Hawaiian Is. Jeppson et al. (1975) Goff (1986)
Nearctic: Mexico Baker & Pritchard (1962) United States Banks (1912) Banks (1914) Ewing (1922) McGregor (1939) Pritchard & Baker (1955) Bibby & Tuttle (1959) Bacon et al. (1962) Tuttle & Baker (1964) Tuttle & Baker (1976) Archer et al. (1986) Archer et al. (1988) Archer et al. (1990a) Archer et al. (1990b) Bynum et al. (2015) Ganjisaffar & Perring (2017) Bui et al. (2018) Mushtaq et al. (2023b) Barnes et al. (2024)
Neotropical: Brazil Flechtmann & Baker (1975) Feres et al. (2009) Colombia Figueroa (1919) Costa Rica Salas (1978) Ochoa et al. (1991) Aguilar & Murillo (2012) El Salvador Baker & Pritchard (1962) Andrews & Poe (1980) Honduras Ochoa et al. (1991)
Oriental: China Ma & Yuan (1980a) Li et al. (2018a) Pakistan Chaudhri et al. (1974) Iqbal & Ali (2008)
Palearctic: Algeria Athias-Henriot (1959) Egypt Zaher et al. (1982) Iraq Hirst (1920) Saudi Arabia Alatawi & Kamran (2018) Syria Zeity & Srinivasa (2019)
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Banks (1914) New Acarina. Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Pomona College Dept. of Zoology, 6: 55-66 [description; distribution; host]
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Figueroa (1919) Cultivation of clover. Revista nacional de Agricultura, Bogota, 9-12: 560-604 [distribution]
Hirst (1920) Revision of the English species of red spider (Genera Tetranychus and Oligonychus). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 4: 49-60 [distribution]
Ewing (1922) Three new species of peculiar and injurious spider mites. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 24 (4): 104-108 [description; distribution; host]
McGregor (1939) The specific identity of the American date mite; description of two new species of Paratetranychus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 41 (9): 247-256 [distribution; host]
McGregor (1950) Mites of the family Tetranychidae. American Midland Naturalist, 44: 257-420 [host]
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Bibby & Tuttle (1959) Notes on phytophagous and predatory mites of Arizona. Journal of Economic Entomology, 52 (2): 186-190 [distribution; host]
Bacon et al. (1962) Effects of spider mite infestations on dent corn in California. Journal of Economic Entomology, 55: 823-825 [distribution; host]
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Flechtmann & Hunter (1971) The spider mites (Prostigmata : Tetranychidae) of Georgia. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society, 6: 16-30 [host]
Chaudhri et al. (1974) Taxonomic studies of the mites belonging to the families Tenuipalpidae, Tetranychidae, Tuckerellidae, Caligonellidae, Stigmaeidae and Phytoseiidae - PL-480 Project on mites. Lyallpur, Pakistan, University of Agriculture: 250 p [distribution; host]
Baker (1975a) Plant-feeding mites of Thailand (Tetranychidae, Tenuipalpidae, and Tuckerellidae). Plant Protection Service Technical Bulletin. Bangkok, Thailand. No 35: 43 p [host]
Flechtmann & Baker (1975) A report on the Tetranychidae (Acari) of Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 19: 111-122 [distribution; host]
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Tuttle & Baker (1976) New records, species of Tetranychidae and Tenuipalpidae (Acarina) from Utah and Idaho. Great Basin Naturalist, 36: 57-64 [distribution; host]
Tuttle et al. (1976) Spider mites of Mexico (Acarina : Tetranychidae). International Journal of Acarology, 2: 1-102 [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]
Ma & Yuan (1980a) New species and new records of tetranychid mites from China I. (Acarina: Tetranychidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 5: 42-45 [distribution; host]
Gutierrez & Etienne (1981a) Quelques données sur les acariens Tetranychidae attaquant les plantes cultivées au Sénégal. Agronomie Tropicale, 36: 391-394 [distribution; host]
Gutierrez & Etienne (1981b) Une nouvelle espèce du genre Oligonychus (Acariens: Tetranychidae) attaquant le riz au Sénégal. Agronomie Tropicale, 36: 389-390 [distribution]
Zaher et al. (1982) Spider mites of Egypt (Acari: Tetranychidae). International Journal of Acarology, 8 (2): 91-114 [distribution; host]
Archer et al. (1986) Greenbug (Homoptera: Aphididae) and Banks grass mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) distribution on sorghum plants. Journal of Economic Entomology, 79: 116-121 [distribution; host]
Goff (1986) Spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) in the Hawaiian Islands. International Journal of Acarology, 12: 43-49 [distribution; host]
Archer et al. (1988) Abundance of Banks grass mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) on corn and sorghum fertilized with different rates of nitrogen and phosphorus. Journal of Economic Entomology, 81: 300-303 [distribution; host]
Archer & Bynum (1990) Economic injury level for the Banks grass mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) on corn. Journal of Economic Entomology, 83: 1069-1073 [host]
Archer et al. (1990a) Banks grass mites (Oligonychus pratensis) abundance on sorghum cultivars with different levels of nitrogen use and metabolism efficiency. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 9: 3-4 [distribution; host]
Archer et al. (1990b) Influence of planting date on abundance of foliage-feeding insects and mites associated with sorghum. Journal of Agricultural Entomology, 7: 221-232 [distribution; host]
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Feres et al. (2009) Ácaros (Arachnida, Acari) de plantas ornamentais na região noroeste do estado de São Paulo, Brasil: inventário e descrição dos sintomas causados pelos fitófagos. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 53 (3): 466-474 [distribution; host]
Aguilar & Murillo (2012) New hosts and records of plant feeding mites for Costa Rica: interval 2008-2012. Agronomia Costarricense, 36: 11-28 [distribution; host]
Bynum et al. (2015) Impact of Banks grass mite. Damage to yield, quality of maize silage. Southwestern Entomologist, 40 (2): 251-262 [distribution; host]
Migeon (2015) The Jean Gutierrez spider mite collection. Zookeys, 489: 15-24 [distribution; host]
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Alatawi & Kamran (2018) Spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) of Saudi Arabia: two new species, new records and a key to all known species. Journal of Natural History, 52: 429-455 [distribution; host]
Bui et al. (2018) Generalist and specialist mite herbivores induce similar defense responses in maize and barley but differ in susceptibility to benzoxazinoids. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9: 1222 [distribution; host]
Li et al. (2018a) Ontogenetic development and redescription of Oligonychus pratensis (Banks, 1912) (Acari: Tetranychidae). Zootaxa, 4486: 349-375 [description; distribution; host; illustration]
Maric et al. (2018b) Spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) in protected natural areas of Serbia. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 23 (10): 2033-2053 [host]
Zeity & Srinivasa (2019) Updated contribution to the knowledge of Tetranychoidea (Acari: Tetranychidae, Tenuipalpidae) from Syria with reinstatement of genus Nuciforaella Vacante. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 24: 529-543 [distribution]
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Mushtaq et al. (2023b) Molecular-based taxonomic inferences of some spider mite species of the genus Oligonychus Berlese (Acari, Prostigmata, Tetranychidae). Insects, 14 (2): 192 [distribution; host]
Barnes et al. (2024) The effects of water-stress, temperature and plant traits on the outbreak potential of a specialist and generalist spider mite species (Acari: Tetranychidae). Journal of Applied Entomology, 148 (1): 13-25 [distribution; host]
Mushtaq et al. (2024a) Morphotaxonomic assessment of the pratensis species complex with ontogenetic development and redescription of Oligonychus pratensis (Banks) (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae). Diversity, 16 (12): 765 [description; illustration]