Floracarus perrepae Knihinicki & Boczek, 2002

Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, Zootaxa 2257, pp. 1-128 : 20

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5317362
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scientific name	Floracarus perrepae Knihinicki & Boczek, 2002
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Floracarus perrepae Knihinicki & Boczek, 2002 ( Fig. 4B)

Floracarus perrepae Knihinicki & Boczek, 2002: 242–244 .

Floracarus perrepae ; Goolsby et al., 2003: 36.

Floracarus perrepae ; Goolsby et al., 2006b: 289.

Host. Lygodium microphyllum , L. reticulatum (Lygodiaceae) .

Habit. Curling and distortion leaflets.

Distribution. Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, China (Guangdong), India, Sri Lanka, Australia (Qld, Brisbane, Tully, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory), Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia.

Remarks. This mite species is wide-spread in Asia and Australasia, as a biocontral agent for Old World climbing fern Lygodium microphyllum . Molecular and biological experiments have been done ( Goolsby et al. 2003, 2005a & b, 2006a & b; Ozman & Goolsby 2005) to test the mite as a potential biological control agent against the fern. Freeman et al. (2005) did an ultrastructural study on the relationship between the mite species and the fern.

References

Freeman, T. P., Goolsby, J. A., Ozman, S. K. & Nelson, D. R. (2005) An ultrastructural study of the relationship between the mite Floracarus perrepae Knihinicki & Boczek (Acariformes: Eriophyidae) and the fern Lygodium microphyllum (Lygodiaceae). Australian Journal of Entomology, 44, 57 - 61.

Goolsby, J. A., Wright, A. D. & Pemberton, R. W. (2003) Exploratory surveys in Australia and Asia for natural enemies of Old World climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum: Lygodiaceae. Biological Control, 28, 33 - 46.

Goolsby, J. A., Jesudasan, R. W. A., Jourdan, H., Muthuraj, B., Bouren, A. S. & Pemberton, R. W. (2005 a) Continental comparisons of the interaction between climate and the herbivorous mite, Floracarus perrepae (Acari: Eriophyidae). Florida Entomologist, 88, 129 - 134.

Goolsby, J. A., Paul, J., de Barro, P. J., Makinson, J. R., Pemberton, R. W., Hartley, D. & Frohlich, D. R. (2006 b) Matching the origin of an invasive weed for selection of a herbivore haplotype for a biological control programme. Molecular Ecology, 15, 287 - 297.

Knihinicki, D. K. & Boczek, J. (2002) New eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from Australia. International Journal of Acarology, 28, 241 - 249.

Ozman, S. K. & Goolsby, J. A. (2005) Biology and phenology of the eriophyid mite, Floracarus perrepae, on its native host in Australia, Old World climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 35, 197 - 213.