Stigmaeopsis malkovskii Wainstein, 1956

Zhovnerchuk, Olga & Auger, Philippe, 2019, Spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) from the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve (Ukraine): faunistic survey, reinstatement of the genus Georgiobia Wainstein, 1960 and description of a new species, Zootaxa 4559 (2), pp. 321-338 : 335

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.2.6
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:808CB774-BC1B-428F-AEB6-8266AD3984F1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5921302
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F67E4822-CA79-F33D-10A5-EF78D4EDFBAF
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Stigmaeopsis malkovskii Wainstein, 1956
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Treatment

Specimens examined. 1♀, Petasites sp., Volyzhyn forest , BSBR, 0 7.10.1991, L. Kolodochka ; 1♀, Scorzonera sp., Ivano-Rybalchansky area , BSBR (46°27'N, 31°10'E), 10.06.2015, O. Zhovnerchuk GoogleMaps ; 2♀♀, Calamagrostis sp., Solenoozerny area , BSBR (46°27'N, 31°59'E), 15.06.2015, O. Zhovnerchuk GoogleMaps ; 2♀♀, Tanacetum sp., Solenoozerny area , BSBR (46°27'N, 31°59'E), 15.06.2015, O. Zhovnerchuk GoogleMaps .

This mite species was previously found on Calamagrostis sp. in Kazakhstan only. In Ukraine S. malkovskii was recorded by I. Akimov on Bolboschoenus sp. in the river basin of Luhansk region (personal communication). In BSBR, S. malkovskii specimens are recorded in all the investigated areas. In each of them this species is found on a different host belonging to the family Asteraceae .