One new genus and two new species of eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyidae) from China with a re-description of Dipentamerus litseae (Wei & Chen, 2004)

ABSTRACT

One new genus and two new species of eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyidae) from China are described and illustrated. They are Grandiscapitis camelliae gen. nov. and sp. nov. on Camellia oleifera Abel (Theaceae) and Prominens photiniae sp. nov. on Photinia serratifolia (Desf.) Kalkman (Rosaceae). Additionally, we provided more generic characters to Dipentamerus Wang & Wei, 2009 and re-described Dipentamerus litseae. All three species are vagrant on the lower leaf surface and no symptom to the host was observed.

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KEYWORDS:

• Acaricalini
• Dipentamerus
• Grandiscapitis
• Phyllocoptinae
• Phyllocoptini
• Prominens
• Taxonomy

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Mrs. Yan-Mei Yuan and Mr. Liang-Fei Yao (Nanjing Agricultural University, China) for their kind help of making slides. We also would like to thank Dr. Guo-Quan Wang (Guangxi University, China) for loaning type specimens. We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their critical comments on the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.