Allonychus braziliensis (McGregor, 1950)

Classification

Tetranychidae - Tetranychinae - Tetranychini - Allonychus

Accepted name

Allonychus braziliensis (McGregor, 1950). McGregor (1950): 318.

Original description

Septanychus braziliensis McGregor, 1950. McGregor (1950): 318.

Type host: Cydonia oblonga, Musa x paradisiaca. Type distribution: Brazil.

Summary

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

         Septanychus braziliensis McGregor, 1950. Valid nomenclatural act McGregor (1950): 318. Type host: Cydonia oblonga, Musa x paradisiaca. Type distribution: Brazil.
    Allonychus braziliensis (McGregor, 1950). New combination Pritchard & Baker (1955): 137.


    Identification tools

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

    Hosts (18 plants, 16 references)


    Anacardiaceae: Mangifera indica Paschoal (1970a)
    Euphorbiaceae: Hevea brasiliensis Chiavegato (1968) Flechtmann & Arleu (1984) Manihot esculenta Guerrero & Bellotti (1980)
    Lauraceae: Cinnamomum verum Flechtmann & Baker (1975) Nectandra sp. Paschoal & Reis (1968) Persea americana Livshits & Salinas-Croche (1968)
    Malvaceae: Dombeya sp. Flechtmann & Baker (1975) Hibiscus elatus Livshits & Salinas-Croche (1968) Suarez (2004)
    Meliaceae: Cedrela fissilis Flechtmann (2020a)
    Moraceae: Ficus sp. Flechtmann (1971)
    Musaceae: Musa acuminata Musa x paradisiaca McGregor (1950)
    Poaceae: Stenotaphrum dimidiatum
    Rosaceae: Cydonia oblonga McGregor (1950) Malus domestica Paschoal (1969) Pyrus communis Paschoal (1968a) Paschoal (1970a) Flechtmann (2004)
    Urticaceae: Cecropia peltata
    Vitaceae: Vitis vinifera da Silva et al. (2020)


    Distribution (5 countries, 16 references)


    Neotropical: Brazil McGregor (1950) Chiavegato (1968) Paschoal & Reis (1968) Paschoal (1969) Paschoal (1970a) Flechtmann & Baker (1975) Flechtmann & Arleu (1984) Flechtmann (2004) da Silva et al. (2020) Flechtmann (2020a) Colombia Guerrero & Bellotti (1980) Cuba Livshits & Salinas-Croche (1968) Cuervo et al. (1994) Suarez (2004) Nicaragua Jeppson et al. (1975) Venezuela Doreste (1967)


    Literature (19 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 [taxononmy]
    Doreste (1967) Primera lista de acaros de importancia agricola en Venezuela. Servico Shell para el Agicultor. VII Reunion Latino Americana de Fitotecnia Alaf, Caracas, Venezuela, Fundacion Shell: 16 p [distribution]
    Chiavegato (1968) Contribução para o onhecimento de alguns acaros que ocorrem na seringueira (Hevea brasiliensis Mull). Anais da I Reunião Anual da Sociedae Brasileira de Entomologia, Piracicaba: 67 [distribution; host]
    Livshits & Salinas-Croche (1968) Preliminares acerca de los acaros Tetranicos de Cuba. Cuba, Centro Nacional Fitosanirario, 156 pp [distribution; host]
    Paschoal (1968a) Especies de acaros encontradas emplantas no Estado de Sao Paulo. Ciencia e Cultura, 20: 258 [host]
    Paschoal & Reis (1968) Relacao de acaros encontrados em plantas. Revista de Agricultura, 43: 137-139 [distribution; host]
    Paschoal (1969) Acaros encontrados em plantas no Estado de Sao Paulo. Revista de Agricultura, Piracicaba., 44 (2-3): 76-78 [distribution; host]
    Paschoal (1970a) Contribuicao ao conhecimento da familia Tetranychidae no Brasil (Arachnida : Acarina). PhD Thesis. Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Piracicaba, Universitat Sao Paulo, Brasil: 116 p [distribution; host]
    Flechtmann (1971) Alguns Trombidiformes do Brasil e do Paraguai (Acari). Piracicaba, Brasil: 63 pp [host]
    Flechtmann & Baker (1975) A report on the Tetranychidae (Acari) of Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 19: 111-122 [distribution; host]
    Jeppson et al. (1975) Mites injurious to economic plants. Berkeley, University of California Press: xxiv + 614 p [distribution]
    Guerrero & Bellotti (1980) Contribucion al conocimiento de algunos acaros fitofagos encontrados en el cultivo de la yuca Manihot esculenta Crantz, en Colombia. Revista Colombiana de Entomologia, 6: 85-98 [distribution; host]
    Flechtmann & Arleu (1984) Oligonychus coffeae (Nietner), a red spider mite from the rubber tree, new for Brazil, observations on other mites from this plant. Ecossistema, Fac. Agron. Zoot., Pinhal, Brasil, 9: 123-125 [distribution; host]
    Cuervo et al. (1994) Lista alfabetica de las especies de acaros de Cuba (Arachnida: Acari). Ciudad de La Habana: 21 p [distribution]
    Flechtmann (2004) Two new plant feeding mites from Brachiaria ruziziensis in citrus groves in São Paulo, Brazil and new distribution records of other plant mites in Brazil. Zootaxa, 708: 1-11 [distribution; host]
    Suarez (2004) Catalogo de acaros de la provincia de Guantanamo. Fitosanidad, 8: 23-31 [distribution; host]
    da Silva et al. (2020) Bioecological aspects of mites associated with Vitis vinifera varieties in the state of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 25 (9): 1618-1642 [distribution; host]
    Flechtmann (2020a) Spider mites, host plants, new records for Brazil (Acari: Tetranychidae). Entomological Communications, 2: ec02004 [distribution; host]