Oligonychus mactus Tseng, 1990

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

13. Oligonychus mactus Tseng, 1990

Oligonychus mactus Tseng, 1990: 146.

Host and distribution.

Pinus sp. ( Pinaceae ); Taiwan.

Remarks.

Oligonychus mactus Tseng was described from females only, and the male is unknown. Tseng differentiated the female from the females of O. clavatus ( Ehara 1959) (described from Japan on Pinus spp.) and O. subnudus ( McGregor 1950) (from USA on Pinus sp.), using the patterns of dorsal hysterosomal striae, the comparative lengths of prodorsal setae and the number of setae on tibia II ( Tseng 1990). These three species inhabit Pinus spp., but were described from geographically well separated localities ( Migeon and Dorkeld 2021). The male of O. mactus still needs to be collected and described from the type host and locality.