Eotetranychus thujae (McGregor, 1950)

Classification

Tetranychidae - Tetranychinae - Tetranychini - Eotetranychus

Accepted name

Eotetranychus thujae (McGregor, 1950). McGregor (1950): 303.

Original description

Tetranychus thujae McGregor, 1950. McGregor (1950): 303.

Type host: Thuja occidentalis. Type distribution: United States.

Summary

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

         Tetranychus thujae McGregor, 1950. Valid nomenclatural act McGregor (1950): 303. Type host: Thuja occidentalis. Type distribution: United States.
    Eotetranychus thujae (McGregor, 1950). New combination Pritchard & Baker (1955): 159.
    Platytetranychus thujae (McGregor, 1950). New combination Tuttle & Baker (1968): 106.
    Eotetranychus thujae (McGregor, 1950). New combination Seeman et al. (2017): 495.


    Identification tools

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

    Hosts (11 plants, 10 references)


    Cupressaceae: Chamaecyparis pisifera Kamayev (2023a) Juniperus chinensis Reeves (1963) Juniperus osteosperma Tuttle & Baker (1968) Juniperus procumbens Reeves (1963) Juniperus scopulorum Kamayev (2023a) Juniperus sp. Pritchard & Baker (1955) Thewke & Enns (1969) Kamayev & Karpun (2024) Juniperus virginiana Pritchard & Baker (1955) Platycladus orientalis Thewke & Enns (1969) Platycladus sp. Kontschán & Ripka (2017) Thuja occidentalis McGregor (1950) Kamayev (2023a) Kamayev (2023b) Kamayev (2023c) Kamayev & Karpun (2024) Thuja sp. Pritchard & Baker (1955) Kontschán & Ripka (2017)


    Distribution (5 countries, 10 references)


    Nearctic: United States McGregor (1950) Pritchard & Baker (1955) Reeves (1963) Tuttle & Baker (1968) Thewke & Enns (1969)
    Palearctic: Hungary Kontschán & Ripka (2017) Kazakhstan Kamayev (2023c) Kyrgyzstan Kamayev (2023b) Russian Federation Kamayev (2023a) Kamayev & Karpun (2024)


    Literature (11 references in chronological order)


    McGregor (1950) Mites of the family Tetranychidae. American Midland Naturalist, 44: 257-420 [description; 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; host; taxononmy]
    Reeves (1963) Tetranychidae infesting woody plants in New York State, and a life history study of the elm mite Eotetranychus matthyssei n. sp.. Cornell University Agricultural Station Mem.: 99 p [distribution; host]
    Tuttle & Baker (1968) Spider mites of southwestern United States, a revision of the family Tetranychidae. Tucson, Usa, The University of Arizona Press: 143 p [distribution; host; taxononmy]
    Thewke & Enns (1969) The spider-mite complex (Acarina : Tetranychoidae) in Missouri. Museum contributions, Columbia, Missouri, USA, University of Missouri, Monograph No. 1: 106 p [distribution; host]
    Kontschán & Ripka (2017) Checklist of the Hungarian spider mites and flat mites (Acari: Tetranychidae and Tenuipalpidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 22 (8): 1199-1225 [distribution; host]
    Seeman et al. (2017) A new Australian species of Eotetranychus (Acari: Tetranychidae) from buck spinifex Triodia mitchelli (Poaceae), intraspecific variation in Eotetranychus, and the synonymy of Platytetranychus with Eotetranychus. Zootaxa, 4324: 491–517 [taxononmy]
    Kamayev (2023a) Annotated list of Tetranychoidea mites (Acari: Trombidiformes) of Central European Russia. Acarina, 31 (1): 101-118 [distribution; host]
    Kamayev (2023b) New data on spider mites (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) from Kyrgyzstan. Acarina, 31 (2): 271-273 [distribution; host]
    Kamayev (2023c) New data on the fauna of spider mites (Acari, Tetranychidae) from Kazakhstan. Entomological Review, 103 (9): 1029-1034 [distribution; host]
    Kamayev & Karpun (2024) A contribution to the knowledge of the spider mite fauna (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) of the North Caucasus, Russia. Acarina, 32 (1): 35-42 [distribution; host]