Description of six new species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India

Pramanik, Shubham; Karmakar, Krishna

doi:10.22073/pja.v5i3.19618

Description of six new species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India

Authors

Shubham Pramanik

Krishna Karmakar

Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur-741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India;

10.22073/pja.v5i3.19618

Abstract

In this present paper six new mite species of the family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) are described from Arunachal Pradesh, India: Euseius arunachalensis sp. nov., E. bandispermathecae sp. nov., E. bomdilae sp. nov., Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) dahungensis sp. nov., Phytoseius dorsospinosus sp. nov. and P. leopardisimilis sp. nov.

Keywords

Euseius

female

Mesostigmata

Phytoseius

taxonomy

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius)