Hemicheyletia bakeri ( Ehara, 1962 )

Negm, M. W., 2014, Increasing Knowledge Of The Mite Fauna Of The United Arab Emirates: New Records And A Checklist, Acarologia 54 (1), pp. 113-120 : 117

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1051/acarologia/20142118

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52AB65EC-224D-46B4-ABB6-0C98BF47E15B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5477840

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C2A407D-FFF5-476A-FF11-D891FEAD00AF

treatment provided by

Marcus

scientific name

Hemicheyletia bakeri ( Ehara, 1962 )
status

 

Hemicheyletia bakeri ( Ehara, 1962) View in CoL

Material examined — Five females, Dubai, 12 Jan. 2013, 25°06’ N, 55°09’ E, alt. 7 m, on C. arvensis GoogleMaps .

Remarks — This species was described from Rose mallow, Hibiscus rose-sinensis (Malvaceae) in a greenhouse in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan ( Ehara, 1962). It was found predating on citrus red mite, Panonychus citri (McGregor) in Ehime prefecture of Japan ( Razaq et al., 2001). This is the first report of the family Cheyletidae from the UAE.

Distribution — Australia ( Gerson, 1994), Israel ( Gerson, 1967), Pakistan ( Qayyum and Chaudhri, 1979), Philippines ( Corpuz-Raros, 1972) and USA ( Muma, 1964).

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