Review of Lorryia Oudemans, 1925 (Acari: Tydeidae: Tydeinae) associated with Hevea spp. in Brazil

ABSTRACT

Tydeidae are free living mites, found in a wide range of environments in all continents. Surveys of mite fauna associated with Hevea spp. have registered Lorryia mites as unidentified species, with L. formosa Cooreman, 1958 the only fully identified species. We examined 557 Lorryia specimens sampled from Hevea spp. from 26 plots distributed over 11 provinces in Brazil during the last 20 years. The analysis revealed eight species of Lorryia found on these hosts, four of them recently discovered associated with this host and three recorded for the first time in the country, besides L. formosa, which was already known on this host plant.

KEYWORDS:

• Crop
• mite diversity
• rubber trees
• species occurrence
• taxonomy

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Dr Guilherme Liberato da Silva for providing help on identification process, Dr Carlos H. W. Flechtmann, Dr Antonio Carlos Lofego, Dr Marcel Santos de Araújo, Dr José Marcos Rezende and Dr Elizeu Barbosa Castro for their suggestions and reviews since the beginning of our studies on Tydeidae.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) provided fellowships to FMN and ASM [10/19935-1, 13/18265-0], Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) provided research support and funding to RJFF [303435/2013-5].