Eutetranychus papayensis Iqbal & Ali, 2008

Kamran, Muhammad, Khan, Eid Muhammad & Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, 2018, The spider mites of the genus Eutetranychus Banks (Acari, Trombidiformes, Tetranychidae) from Saudi Arabia: two new species, a re-description, and a key to the world species, ZooKeys 799, pp. 47-88 : 47

Eutetranychus papayensis Iqbal & Ali, 2008

Eutetranychus papayensis Iqbal & Ali, 2008: 125−130.

Host and Distribution.

Female, from Carica papaya L. ( Caricaceae ), Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Eutetranychus papayensis was described with coxae I−IV 2−2−2−2 (whereas they illustrate 2−2−1−1 setae) and three pairs of anal setae. Also, the empodium of this species were neither described nor illustrated. So, based on these characters together, E. papayensis can neither be placed in Eutetranychus nor even in other genera of the family Tetranychidae .The first author has informed us that type specimens of this species have been lost. Therefore, E. papayensis is considered as a species inquirenda.

After excluding those seven species which we suggest as synonyms and one species inquirenda, the genus Eutetranychus includes 28 species (including the new species described herein) and is divided into two species groups based on the number of setae (one or two) on coxae II: the species group orientalis has one seta on coxa II (12 species) and the species group banksi has two setae on coxa II (16 species). The number of setae on coxae II has been considered as a solid morphometric character founded to be strongly constant in all specimens of each Eutetranychus species ( Pritchard and Baker 1955, Baker and Pritchard 1960, Chaudhri et al. 1974, Meyer 1974, 1987, Khanjani et al. 2017).