Oligonychus Berlese, 1886.

Mushtaq, Hafiz Muhammad Saqib, Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, Kamran, Muhammad & Flechtmann, Carlos Holger Wenzel, 2021, The genus Oligonychus Berlese (Acari, Prostigmata, Tetranychidae): taxonomic assessment and a key to subgenera, species groups, and subgroups, ZooKeys 1079, pp. 89-127 : 89

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1079.75175

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scientific name

Oligonychus Berlese, 1886.
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Genus Oligonychus Berlese, 1886. View in CoL View at ENA

Oligonychus Berlese, 1886: 24, Pritchard and Baker 1955: 270, Wainstein 1960: 203, Tuttle and Baker 1968: 116, Meyer 1974: 248, Mitrofanov 1977: 1801-1802, Meyer 1987: 142, Beard et al. 2003: 51-78, Khanjani et al. 2018: 223-287, Li et al. 2019: 1071-1106.

Type species.

Heteronychus brevipodus Targioni-Tozzetti, 1878: 255.

Diagnosis.

(Based on: Pritchard and Baker 1955; Tuttle and Baker 1968; Meyer 1974, 1987; Beard et al. 2003, 2008; Khanjani et al. 2018). Empodia well developed, claw-like with proximoventral hairs (except male leg I with hairs modified into spur) that are as long as or shorter than empodial claw on most of legs; two pairs of duplex setae on tarsus I, distal and adjacent; opisthosoma with 11 pairs of dorsal setae (c1-3, d1-2, e1-2, f1-2, h2-3; n.b. setae h2 and h3 usually inserted ventrally); clunal setae h1 always absent.

Taxonomic review of the genus Oligonychus

The genus Oligonychus was erected by Berlese (1886), based on Heteronychus brevipodus Targioni-Tozzetti as the type species (specimen was a nymph), reported from the Holly Oak ( Quercus ilex L., Fagaceae ) in Italy ( Targioni-Tozzetti 1878). Because Berlese (1886) did not clearly describe the presence of proximoventral hairs on the empodial claws in the diagnosis of Oligonychus , Zacher (1913) created a new genus, Paratetranychus , and described the presence of proximoventral hairs in it. McGregor (1950) followed the work of Zacher (1913) by giving priority to Paratetranychus over Oligonychus , and placed all Oligonychus species within Paratetranychus . Five years later, Pritchard and Baker (1955) redefined the genus Oligonychus , and synonymized the genera Paratetranychus and Tacebia ( Yokoyama 1929) with Oligonychus.

Beard, JJ, Walter, DE, Allsopp, PG, 2003. Spider mites of sugarcane in Australia: a review of grass-feeding Oligonychus Berlese (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42: 51 - 78, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-6055.2003.00326.x

Berlese, A, 1886. Acari dannosi alle piante coltivati. Padova, Italia

Khanjani, M, Khanjani, M, Seeman, OD, 2018. The spider mites of the genus Oligonychus Berlese (Acari: Tetranychidae) from Iran. Systematic and Applied Acarology 23: 223 - 287, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.23.2.4

Li, J, Yi, TC, Guo, JJ, Jin, DC, 2019. Redescription of three species of Oligonychus (Acari, Tetranychidae) from China. Systematic and Applied Acarology 24: 1071 - 1106, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.24.6.10

McGregor, EA, 1950. Mites of the family Tetranychidae. American Midland Naturalist 44: 257 - 420, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2421963

Meyer, MKPS, 1974. A revision of the Tetranychidae of Africa (Acari) with a key to the genera of the world. Entomology Memoir, Department of Agricultural Technical Services, Republic of South Africa

Meyer, MKPS, 1987. African Tetranychidae (Acari: Prostigmata) - with reference to the world genera. Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Republic of South Africa

Mitrofanov, VI, 1977. The taxonomy of the family Tetranychidae (Acariformes, Trombidiformes). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 56: 1797 - 1804

Pritchard, AE, Baker, EW, 1955. A revision of the spider mite family Tetranychidae. Memoirs Series, San Francisco, Pacific Coast Entomological Society, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.150852

Targioni-Tozzetti, A, 1878. Relazione inteorno ai lavori della Stazione di entomologia agraria di Firenze per l' anno 1876. Acaridei. Annali di Agricoltura 1: 242 - 275

Tuttle, DM, Baker, EW, 1968. Spider mites of southwestern United States and a revision of the family Tetranychidae. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson

Wainstein, BA, 1960. Tetranychoid mites of Kazakhstan (with revision of the family). Trudy Nauchno-Issledoniya Institut Zashchita Rastenii Kazakhstan, 5: 1 - 276

Yokoyama, K, 1929. New textbook of sericultural insect pest. Saishin Nippon Sangyo Gaichu Zensho. Meibun - do, Tokyo

Zacher, F, 1913. Untersuchungen uber spinnmilben. Mitteilungen aus der Kaiserlichen Biologischen Anstalt fur Land-und Forstwirtschaft 14: 37 - 41

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

SubOrder

Prostigmata

Family

Tetranychidae

SubFamily

Tetranychinae

Tribe

Tetranychini