Description of five new species of Amblyseiinae (Acari: Phytoseiidae) associated with medicinal plants from the Northern Himalayan Zone of West Bengal, India

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 22 Oct 2021Publisher:Magnolia PressJournal:Zootaxa, volume 5,057, pages 64-84 (issn: 1175-5326, eissn: 1175-5334,

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Authors: Molla, Md. Iftiar Hossain; Karmakar, Krishna;

doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5057.3.3

pmid: 34811204

Description of five new species of Amblyseiinae (Acari: Phytoseiidae) associated with medicinal plants from the Northern Himalayan Zone of West Bengal, India

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Five new species of phytoseiid mites in the subfamily Amblyseiinae are described from specimens collected from princess flower (Tibouchina urvilleana Cogn.: Melastomataceae), datura (Datura metel L.: Solanaceae), rose (Rosa chinensis Jacq.: Rosaceae), and cinchona (Cinchona officinalis L.: Rubiaceae) from the northern hill zone of West Bengal in the Central Himalayan Mountain region, namely Amblyseiulella tibouchina sp. nov., Amblyseius rishyapensis sp. nov., Okiseius ramdhuracus sp. nov., Okiseius roseus sp. nov., and Typhlodromips cinchonai sp. nov.

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Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya
India

Keywords

Mites, Plants, Medicinal, Arthropoda, India, Rubiaceae, Biodiversity, Arachnida, Mesostigmata, Animalia, Animals, Phytoseiidae, Rosaceae, Taxonomy

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